KASAMATSU -- "Mt Fuji from Lake Ashino, Hakone" (#4)

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Artist Shiro KASAMATSU
(1898-1991)
Title "Mt Fuji from Lake Ashino, Hakone"
("Hakone, Ashino-ko no Fuji")
Date 1935;
(early post-War 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 "M-seal" (gift seal). Known collected 1947, Tokyo.
Image Size 9 1/2 x 14 1/4
Impression Very Fine.
Skillful "bokashi" shading to sky, hills, water, and foreground; deep "gauffrage" to Mt Fuji's snow fields, reflection, and clouds; life-like reflection.
Condition Nearly Excellent. Excellent colors. Very clean front and verso. (Light toning; bumping to lower corners; some very slight wear.) All prints within this 1947 collection have never been displayed -- stored flat past 72 years.
Reference/Illus Grund #W-24.
Comments A beautiful, reflected Mt Fuji image. Seldom seen.
From a 1947 Tokyo Japan military collection.
Item # SF-45
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