HASUI -- "Moonlight at Seichoen Garden" (#2)

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Artist Hasui KAWASE (1883-1957)
Title "Moonlight at Seichoen Garden"
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Date 1932 (life-time printing) (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 "C-seal" Appropriate First Edition seal. (Known collected 1947, Tokyo.)
Image Size 9 1/2 x 14 1/4 (plus margins)
Impression Very Fine. Superbly executed "bokashi" shading to sky and water areas; light "gauffrage" to tree, lantern, 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 First Edition scene dating to 1938 and collected 1947.
From a 1947 Tokyo Japan military collection.
Item # SF-26
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