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Snow at Hi Marsh, Mito

 

Japanese Color Woodblock Print

Snow at Hi Marsh, Mito

by Kawase Hasui, originally 1947

IHL Cat. #1

About This Print

Snow at Hi Marsh, Mito is the first Japanese woodblock print I acquired.  I purchased it at Frank Castle's San Francisco gallery, Castle Fine Arts.  I remember spending a wonderful hour looking at the prints in the gallery and speaking with Frank and his wife about Hasui prints and the various editions.  This print is one of the posthumous Heisei editions (1989 to present). [See "Watanabe Publishing Seals" under Watanabe Shozaburo (Publisher) (1885-1962).] Frank told me of a customer who was buying Heisei editions to display in place of more expensive "original editions."

What drew me to this image was a memory of recurring snow-themed dreams that left me feeling calm and fulfilled.

Photo of Hi Marsh and Catalogue Raisonné Entry

Source: Kawase Hasui; TheComplete Woodblock Prints, Kendall Brown, Amy Reigle Newland, Amsterdam, Hotei Publishing, KITPublishers, 2003, p. 121.

 
Hanuma (Hi) Marsh
 
Catalogue Raisonné:
 Kawase Hasui; TheComplete Woodblock Prints
Snow at Hi marsh, Mito
(Mito Hinuma no yuki)

  Work of 1947
Hasui signature with Kawase Seal
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo (Seal A)
Hi Marsh is south of Mito in Ibaraki prefecture.
(Catalog
Raisonné #496)

Print Details

 IHL Catalog #1
 Title Snow at Hi Marsh, Mito
 水戸 涸沼の雪 Mito hinuma no yuki
 Series 
 Artist
 Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)
 Signature
Hasui 巴水
 Seal Kawase seal (see above)
 Publication Date 1947 (original publication)
 Edition Posthumous printing from original woodblocks with publisher's circular 7mm "I"-type seal printed in black in lower left corner of image and Heisei "M"-type seal printed in red in lower right margin, indicating a printing after 1989. (For a full discussion of Watanabe publisher sealssee "Watanabe Publisher Marks, Seals and Editions")
 Publisher
Watanabe Shōzaburō
Watanabe "I"-type seal (in use from approximately 1957-present)
reading (in Katakana): 
ワタナベ Watanabe Shōzaburō
 



Watanabe "M"-type seal (in use from approximately 1989-present) reading (in  kana): 
わたなべ Watanabe
 Impression excellent
 Colors excellent
 Condition excellent
 Miscellaneous 
 Genre shin-hanga (new prints)
 Format ōban tate-e
 H x W Paper 10 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. (26.7 x 39.4 cm)
 H x W Image 9 1/2 x 14 1/4 in. (24.1 x 36.2 cm)
 Collections This Print Los Angeles County Museum of Art M.73.37.240 (6mm seal lower right corner); The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo P00138-129 (6mm seal lower right corner; titled Lake Hinuma, Mito in Snow)
 Reference LiteratureCatalogueRaisonné: Kawase Hasui; TheComplete Woodblock Prints, Kendall Brown, Amy Reigle Newland, Hotei Publishing, KITPublishers, 2003, p. 121, pl. 496; Kawase Hasui and His Contemporaries: The Shin Hanga (NewPrint) Movement in Landscape Art, Irwin J.Patcher, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse,1986, p. 75, pl. 94; Visions of Japan: Kawase Hasui's Masterpieces, Kendall H. Brown, Hotei Publishing, 2004, p. 121, pl. 85