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.  |  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 |  |
| 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 "I"-type seal (in use from approximately 1957-present) reading (in Katakana): ワタナベ Watanabe Shōzaburō  |
| 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 Literature | CatalogueRaisonné: 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 |
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