HASUI -- "Autumn at Itako"

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Artist Hasui KAWASE (1883-1957)
Title "Autumn at Itako"
("**")
Date 1942 (Life-time edition. Known collected 1947.)
Provenance Private placement. Consigned by family of Navy Hospital Corps servicewoman Verna Woodrich stationed in Yokohama/Tokyo 1947.
Series na
Publisher Watanabe Shozaburo
Seal, Carver/Printer "M-seal" (Lifetime edition - known collected 1947, Tokyo.)
Image Size 9 3/4 x 13 3/8 (plus margins)
Impression Very Fine. Superbly executed "bokashi" shading to sky and water areas; light "gauffrage" to clouds and water; highly detailed carving.
Condition Excellent. Excellent colors. Very clean front and verso. (Light toning; possibly some very slight wear.) All prints within this 1947 collection have never been displayed -- stored flat past 71 years.
Reference/Illus Narazaki #468; Hotei #483.
Comments A softly colored scene dating to 1942 and collected 1947.
From a 1947 Tokyo Japan military collection.
Item # SF-02
Price $1475