About This Print

Catalogue Raisonné Entry

Source: Kawase Hasui; TheComplete Woodblock Prints, Kendall Brown, Amy Reigle Newland, Amsterdam, Hotei Publishing, KITPublishers, 2003, p. 94.
Narazaki¹ explains that Hasui depicted the picturesque scenery of Senjocliff before.  In this example he illustrates a foreground tree, itswizened leaves turning yellowish and falling, even thought it is stillearly autumn.  Opposite is the bizarrely shaped cliff at Senjo, hemmedwith autumnal foliage.  The surface of the lake is serene, thereflection of the Senjo cliff on the water, upon which a singlewhite-sailed boat is afloat, is effective. There are two versions ofthis picture.  The darker version illustrated here might be better interms of the contrast between near and far.  This piece was sketched on28 October 1932, produced in December and published in January 1933.

Catalogue Entry from The Toledo Art Museum Show 1936

Source: Modern Japanese Prints, Dorothy Blair, TheToledo Art Museum 1997 (Printed from a photographic reproduction of twoexhibition catalogues of modern Japanese prints published by The ToledoMuseum of Art in 1930 and 1936)
TOWADA LAKE AT SENJOMAKU (Towada Ko Senjomaku)
Autumn scene in northern Japan.  14 1/4” x 9 7/16”.  Signed, Hasui; redseal, decorative form only.  Right margin: the Japanese title; and thedate, “Showa Hachi Ne Ichi Gatsu Saku” (Made in the 1st Month of the8th Year of Showa [January 1933]).  Left margin: copyright stamp of thepublisher, Watanabe of Tokyo.  Blocks 20; superimposed printings, 25;edition, 100.

Lake Towada

Lake Towada is located on theboarder line between Aomori and Akita prefectures. It is a doublecrater lake and the shape is almost square, with the Mikura andNakayama peninsula jutting out into the center of the lake. The lake isespecially beautiful during the season of fresh greens (spring) and redleaves (autumn).