HASUI -- "Chuzenji Temple, Utagahama Beach" (#4)

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Artist Hasui KAWASE
(1883-1957)
Title "Chuzenji Temple, Utagahama Beach"
("Chuzenji Utagahama")
Date 1931
(purchased 1947 Tokyo, "life-time printing")
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 water areas; light "gauffrage" to clouds, boat, and stone wall; highly 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 #326; Hotei #264.
Comments Beautifully colored lakeside "torri" image.
Lifetime printing.
From a 1947 Tokyo Japan military collection.
Item # SF-28
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