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Kawase Hasui
Ryûga Island, Oga Peninsula
1926

Name: Ryûga Island, Oga Peninsula
Brand: Kawase Hasui
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$5,900List Price

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Kawase Hasui

Hasui Kawase (Japanese, 1883 -1957) was an artist, one of modern Japan's most important and prolific printmakers. He was a prominent designer of the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement, whose artists depicted traditional subjects with a style influenced by Western art. Like many earlier ukiyo-e prints, Hasui's works were commonly landscapes, but displayed atmospheric effects and natural lighting. Hasui designed approximately 620 prints over a career that spanned nearly forty years. Towards the end of his life the government recognized him as a Living National Treasure for his contribution to Japanese culture. From youth Hasui dreamed of an art career. His maternal uncle was Kanagaki Robun (1829–94), a Japanese author and journalist, who produced the first manga magazine. Hasui went to the school of the painter Aoyagi Bokusen as a young man. He sketched from nature, copied the masters' woodblock prints, and studied brush painting with Araki Kanyu. His parents had him take on the family rope and thread wholesaling business, but its bankruptcy when he was 26 freed him to pursue art. He approached Kiyokata Kaburagi to teach him, but Kaburagi instead encouraged him to study Western-style painting, which he did with Okada Saburōsuke for two years. Two years later he again applied as a student to Kaburagi, who this time accepted him. Kiyokata bestowed the name Hasui upon him, which can be translated as "water gushing from a spring", and derives from his elementary school combined with an ideogram of his family name. Kawase studied ukiyo-e and Japanese style painting at the studio of Kiyokata Kaburagi. He mainly concentrated on making watercolors of actors, everyday life and landscapes, many of them published as illustrations in books and magazines in the last few years of the Meiji period and early Taishō period. Kawase worked almost exclusively on landscape and townscape prints based on sketches and watercolors he made in Tokyo and during travels around Japan. However, his prints are not merely meishō (famous places) prints that are typical of earlier ukiyo-e masters such as Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). Kawase's prints feature locales that are tranquil and obscure in urbanizing Japan. Hasui Kawase's works are currently kept in several museums worldwide, including the British Museum, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Portland Art Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Stanley Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum, the Clark Art Institute, the Smart Museum of Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Kawase Hasui'The Beach at Kaiganji in Sanuki Province' — Lifetime Impression, 1934

$5,200

H 9.38 in W 14.25 in

'The Beach at Kaiganji in Sanuki Province' — Lifetime Impression

By Kawase Hasui

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

Kawase Hasui, 'The Beach at Kaiganji in Sanuki Province (Sanuki Kaiganji no hama),' from the series Collected Views of Japan II, Kansai Edition (Nihon fûkei shû II Kansai hen), woodblock print, 1934. A very fine, atmospheric impression, with fresh colors; the full sheet, in excellent condition. Signed 'Hasui' with the artist’s seal 'Kawase', lower left. Published by Watanabe Shozaburo with the Watanabe ‘D’ seal indicating an early impression printed between 1931 - 1941. Stamped faintly 'Made in Japan' in the bottom center margin, verso. Horizontal ôban; image size 9 3/8 x 14 1/4 inches (238 x 362 mm); sheet size approximately 10 5/16 x 15 1/2 inches ( 262 x 394 mm). Collections: Art Institute of Chicago; Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (Vienna); Honolulu Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Museum in Warsaw; University of Wisconsin-Madison. ABOUT THE ARTIST “I do not paint subjective impressions. My work is based on reality...I can not falsify...(but) I can simplify…I make mental impressions of the light and color at the time of sketching. While coloring the sketch, I am already imagining the effects in a woodblock print.” — Kawase Hasui Hasui Kawase...

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1930s Showa Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Kawase HasuiKawase Hasui -- Rain at Yasuniwa (Nagano), 1946

$3,168Sale Price|20% Off

H 10.32 in W 14.38 in

Kawase Hasui -- Rain at Yasuniwa (Nagano)

By Kawase Hasui

Located in BRUCE, ACT

Kawase Hasui Rain at Yasuniwa (Nagano), 1946 woodcut in colours Signed on the block, sealed, titled and dated in ink Publisher: Shozaburo Watanabe, with his 6mm seal The first state ...

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1940s Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Kawase HasuiKawase Hasui -- Spring Rain at Gokoku Temple, 1932

$8,640Sale Price|20% Off

H 15.36 in W 10.24 in

Kawase Hasui -- Spring Rain at Gokoku Temple

By Kawase Hasui

Located in BRUCE, ACT

Kawase Hasui Spring Rain at Gokoku-ji Temple, 1932 Woodblock Print 1st Publication: 1932 Sheet size: 39 × 26 cm Date of this edition: 1932, 1st edition Publisher: Doi Teiichi Note...

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1930s Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Early Japanese Woodblock Print Kiyomizu-dera Temple in Kyoto by Kawase Hasui

$6,000

H 15.25 in W 10.25 in D 0.1 in

Early Japanese Woodblock Print Kiyomizu-dera Temple in Kyoto by Kawase Hasui

By Kawase Hasui 1

Located in Atlanta, GA

An early edition Japanese woodblock print "Kiyomizu-dera Temple in Kyoto by Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) from the series Collected Views of Japan II, Kansai Edition (Nihon fukei shu II Kansai hen). The series was created in 1933 and this is an early edition with the publisher copyright seal "Hanken shoyu fukyo mosha Watanabe Shozaburo" dated from 1931-1941. Signed and sealed Hasui in plate. Date and titled on the lower margin. For a comparable print, see lot 86 in Sotheby's London Auction Landscape to City: A Collection of 20th Century Japanese Prints...

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Vintage 1930s Japanese Showa Prints

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Paper

Authentic Japanese Woodblock Print by Kawase Hasui - Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto

$7,500

H 15 in W 10.25 in D 0.15 in

Authentic Japanese Woodblock Print by Kawase Hasui - Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto

Located in Norton, MA

Description Kawase Hasui - Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto, woodblock, 1933, published by The S. Watanabe Color Print Co., with the 7mm and Heisei seals, 15.25" x 10.25". This item is in ex...

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Mid-20th Century Japanese Prints

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Rare Prewar First Edition Japanese Woodblock Print Moon at Magome Kawase Hasui

$12,600

H 15.5 in W 10.25 in D 0.1 in

Rare Prewar First Edition Japanese Woodblock Print Moon at Magome Kawase Hasui

By Kawase Hasui 1

Located in Atlanta, GA

"Umagome no tsuki (Moon at Umagome) from the series Tokyo Nijukkei (20 Views of Tokyo), is inarguably one of the most beloved works by Japanese artist Kawase Hasui (1883-1951) create...

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Vintage 1930s Japanese Modern Prints

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Kawase Hasui Japanese Woodblock Print Shinagawa From Views of the Tokaido Series

$2,995

H 19.75 in W 13.75 in D 0.5 in

Kawase Hasui Japanese Woodblock Print Shinagawa From Views of the Tokaido Series

By Kawase Hasui 1

Located in Studio City, CA

A beautiful and brightly colored woodblock print by famed Japanese artist and Shin-Hanga master printmaker Kawase Hasui. This print, titled "Shinagawa (Rainy Season at Ryoshimachi, S...

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Vintage 1930s Japanese Showa Prints

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Paper

Kawase Hasui Japanese Woodblock Print Shinagawa From Views of the Tokaido Series

$2,495

H 17.5 in W 12.5 in D 1 in

Kawase Hasui Japanese Woodblock Print Shinagawa From Views of the Tokaido Series

By Kawase Hasui 1

Located in Studio City, CA

A beautiful and wonderfully colored woodblock print by famed Japanese artist and Shin-Hanga master printmaker Kawase Hasui. This print, titled "Shinagawa (Rainy Season at Ryoshimachi...

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Vintage 1930s Japanese Showa Prints

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Wood, Paper

Utagawa Hiroshige (Ando Hiroshige)Iwami Province, Mount Takatsu, Salt Beach - Famous Places in the 60-odd Province, 1853

$4,860

H 14.18 in W 9.45 in

Iwami Province, Mount Takatsu, Salt Beach - Famous Places in the 60-odd Province

By Utagawa Hiroshige (Ando Hiroshige)

Located in BRUCE, ACT

Artist: 広重 Utagawa Hiroshige (Ando Hiroshige) Title: Iwami Province, Mount Takatsu, Salt Beach Series: Famous Places in the 60-odd Provinces Size: O-ban 大判 Age: 1853 Publisher: Kos...

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1850s Landscape Prints

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Woodcut

Kawase Hasui Signed Japanese Woodblock Print Rain at Yasuniwa, Nagano Prefecture

$2,495

H 13 in W 16.5 in D 1 in

Kawase Hasui Signed Japanese Woodblock Print Rain at Yasuniwa, Nagano Prefecture

By Kawase Hasui 1

Located in Studio City, CA

A beautiful and wonderfully colored woodblock print by famed Japanese artist and Shin-Hanga master printmaker Kawase Hasui. This print is titled "Rain at Yasuniwa, Nagano Prefecture ...

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Vintage 1940s Japanese Showa Prints

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Wood, Paper

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