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KAWASE HASUI (1883-1957)
Taisho (1912-1926), dated 1921
A square-format print titled Tokyo junikagetsu, Yanaka no yubae An extremely scarce design and one of only five prints that were
(Sunset Glow in Yanaka, Twelve Months of Tokyo), dated Taisho ju, completed from a set of twelve, all in unusual formats—four printed in
ichi, nijugo (25 January, Taisho 10 [1921]), published by Watanabe an unusual circular format and one square—the other seven designs
Shozaburo, with a square seal Watanabe, signed Hasui with Kawase were never produced. This series was one of the earliest collaborations
seal, with a diamond-shaped paper label on verso with Watanabe between Hasui and his publisher Watanabe Shozaburo (1885-1952).
circular family seal with shop name and address in Japanese,
Watanabe Hangaten (Watanabe Print Shop), Tokyo-shi Kyobashi-ku For a similar impression with the same square Watanabe seal in the
Gorobei-cho; and in English, S. WATANABE, NO.11 GOROBEI-CHO, collection of Watanabe Hangaten, see Rieko Tomokazu, Kenji Fujimoto
KYOBASHI-KU, TOKYO. 29cm x 28cm (11 3/8in x 11in). and Satoru Matsushima eds., Kawase Hasui: tabi to kyoshu no fukei
(Kawase Hasui: Travel and Nostalgic Landscape), exhibition catalogue,
£8,000 - 10,000 Tokyo, Step East, 2021, p.48, no.38.
JPY1,600,000 - 1,900,000
US$10,000 - 13,000

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