About This Print
Note difference in color use between CatalogueRaisonné print and print in my collection. The green tint emotes aneven more isolated feeling of this scene.Catalog Raisonné Entry
Source: Kawase Hasui; The Complete WoodblockPrints, Kendall Brown, Amy Reigle Newland, Amsterdam, Hotei Publishing, KIT Publishers, 2003, p. 122.  Town of Kawarago today |  image and entry 504 Evening rain in Kawarago (Kawarago no yau) Work of 1947 Hasui signature with Kawase Seal Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo (Seal A) Kawarago is in Hitachi city, Ibaraki prefecture |
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #4 |
| Title | Evening Rain in Kawarago 河原子の夜雨 Kawarago no yau |
| Series | |
| Artist | Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) |
| Signature |  |
| Seal | Kawase seal (see above) |
| Publication Date | 1947 |
| Edition | Likely first edition with publishers 6mm round, "A"-type seal, printed in red in lower left corner of image. (For a full discussion of Watanabe publisher seals see "Watanabe Publisher Marks, Seals and Editions") |
| Publisher |  Watanabe "A"-type seal (in use from approximately 1918-1924 and 1945-1957) reading (in Katakana): ワタナベ Watanabe Shōzaburō |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | excellent - small scratch in boat image; five minor mounting remnants on verso |
| Miscellaneous | This impression was printed with a greenish tint as opposed to the more usuall bluish tint impression evident in the catalog raisonné image below. |
| Genre | shin hanga (new prints) |
| Format | ōban tate-e |
| H x W Paper | 15 x 10 3/8 in. (38.1 x 26.4 cm) |
| H x W Image | 13 7/8 x 9 5/8 in. (35.2 x 24.4 cm) |
| Collections This Print | Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art M.73.37.234 (unspecified edition with no seal visible on print image); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 50.2857 (unspecified edition with no seal visible on print image); The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo P00138-127 (unspecifiededition with 6mm "A" type seal visible in lower right corner of print image.) |
| Reference Literature | CatalogueRaisonné: Kawase Hasui: TheComplete Woodblock Prints, Kendall Brown; Amy Reigle Newland, Hotei Publishing, KITPublishers, 2003, ISBN: 9074822460, p.122, pl. 504; Kawase Hasui and His Contemporaries: The Shin Hanga (NewPrint) Movement in Landscape Art, Irwin J.Patcher, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse,1986, p. 77, pl. 95; Visions of Japan: Kawase Hasui's Masterpieces, Kendall H. Brown, Hotei Publishing, 2004, p. 123, pl. 87 |
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