| Artist | Hasui KAWASE (1883-1957) |
| Title | "Ikegami Honmonji Temple" ("Ikegami Honmon-Ji") |
| Date | 1931 (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 | Unsealed -- but known collected 1947, Tokyo. (Hand-applied, occasionally omitted--not uncommon from Watanate Publisher.) |
| Image Size | 9 1/2 x 14 3/4 (plus margins) |
| Impression | Very Fine. Skillfully executed "bokashi" shading to sky, trees, and snow areas; light "gauffrage" to accumulated snow in trees; distinctive "baren sujizuri" circles to foreground snow; highly detailed carving. |
| Condition | Excellent. Excellent colors. Very clean front and verso. (Light toning; very slight wear.) All prints within this 1947 collection have never been displayed -- stored flat past 71 years. |
| Reference/Illus | Narazaki #320; Blair, Toledo 1936 #28. |
| Comments | One of Hasui's beautiful wintertime snowscenes.
From a 1947 Tokyo Japan military collection. |
| Item # | SF-27 |
| Price | $1300 |
