About the print

First edition woodblock print by Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) titled “Evening Snowfall at Kiyomizu Temple,” issued 1950. Red 6mm Watanabe seal (1946-1957) lower left corner. Color in particular is outstanding, as is crispness of line quality. Original presentation mat included with print.

Minor surface mars on the upper edge of reverse from prior mounting, as well as two areas on the right edge of reverse where the print was lightly attached to the original presentation mat, as was the custom at the time. Very faint toning in the front margins from a prior mat mount, generally not visible without close inspection.

About the artist…

Kawase Hasui (1883–1957) was a Japanese woodblock print maker in the early 20th century. He and Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950) are widely regarded as two of the greatest artists of the shin hanga style, and are known especially for their excellent landscape prints. During the forty years of his artistic career, Hasui worked closely with Watanabe Shozaburo (1885-1962), publisher and advocate of the shin hanga movement. His works became widely known in the West through American connoisseur Robert O. Muller (1911-2003). In 1956, he was named a Living National Treasure in Japan.

Hasui worked almost exclusively on landscape and townscape prints based on sketches he made in Tokyo and during travels around Japan. However, his prints are not merely meisho (famous places) prints that are typical of earlier ukiyo-e masters such as Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). Hasui’s prints feature locale that are tranquil and obscure in the then-urbanizing Japan. The dreamlike quality in Hasui’s prints epitomizes a yearning for the past and a preservation of the past in the midst of rapid modernization.

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