| Artist | Hasui KAWASE (1883-1957) |
| Title | "Moon at Megome" ("Megome no Tsuki") |
| Date | 1930 (purchased 1947 Tokyo) |
| 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 | "6-mm seal" lower/right (used only 1946-57) Lifetime printing and known collected 1947, Tokyo. |
| Image Size | 9 3/8 x 14 1/4 (plus margins) |
| Impression | Very Fine. Deeply saturated colors; skillfully executed "bokashi" shading to sky, trees, and clouds; light "gauffrage" to tree and full moon; nicely detailed carving. |
| Condition | Excellent. Excellent colors. Very clean front and verso. (Light toning; otherwise flawless.) All prints within this 1947 collection have never been displayed -- stored flat past 71 years. |
| Reference/Illus | Narazaki #319; Hotei #244. |
| Comments | Beautiful moonlit scene done almost entirely as an "aizuri" (shades of blue) print. One of Hasui's most popular images. Always gorgeous -- becomeing hard-to-find. From a 1947 Tokyo Japan military collection. Nice!! |
| Item # | SF-18 |
| Price | $1150 |
