| Artist | Hasui KAWASE (1883-1957) |
| Title | "Snow at Ueno Kiyomizu Temple" ("Ueno Kiyomizu no Yuki") |
| Date | July 1929 (Shobisha's "Earliest Edition" with "Red tilted-seal" |
| Series | One of 16 Hasui designs published originally by Kawaguchi & Sakai (1929-30). |
| Publisher | Shobisha (1920's-2000's) acquired K&S's "block-sets" c1950. |
| Seal, Carver/Printer | Shobisha's "Red tilted-seal" (used only 1955-58) Rare "Red tilted seal" lower margin. |
| Image Size | 9 1/4 x 14 1/8 |
| Impression | Very Fine. Skillfully executed "bokashi" shading; light gauffrage to umbrella and as "raised" snowflakes and snow accumulation. |
| Condition | Nearly Excellent. Excellent colors. Very clean front and verso. (Sight toning; faint mat-line lower/right edges--otherwise flawless.) |
| Reference/Illus | Frontispiece to Pachter's "Kawase Hasui and his Contemporaries" reference; Andacht p111; Narazaki #KS-1; Hotei #181. |
| Comments | Easily Hasui's finest snowscene image of the Kawaguchi/Sakai designs. Published by Shobisha (who acquired woodblocks from Kawaguchi & Sakai around 1950). A RARE find. |
| Item # | GG-286 |
| Price | $1950 (Sold/DR) |