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Oirasegawa

Girl in New Year Clothes
 

 Japanese Color Woodblock Print

Oirasegawa

by Yasui Sōtarō, c. 1956



IHL Cat. #2011

About This Print

In the summer 1932 Yasui stayed at Lake Towada and produced several works under the auspices of the Kokuritsu Kōen Kyōkai (National Park Association). On his way back home he created a number of sketches of the Oirase River which drains Lake Towada. The results of these sketches was the below painting which sits in the collection of The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo.1

This woodblock print is likely a reproduction of one of the sketches of the river he created on this trip. While I have dated the print to c. 1956 based on collateral material received with the print, it is not definitive.

奥入瀬の渓流
Rapid Stream in Oirase
1933(昭和8)年
油彩・カンヴァス [oil on canvas]
65.5 × 81.8cm (25 3/4 x 32.2 in.)
東京国立近代美術館 [The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo]

1 http://www.bunka.pref.mie.lg.jp/art-museum/55952039023.htm

Print Details

 IHL Catalog #2011
 Title Oirasegawa 奥入瀬川【おいらせがわ】     
 Series n/a
 Artist 
 Yasui Sōtarō (1888–1955)
 Signature 
 unsigned
 Seal
Sō 
 Publication Date
c. 1956 [based upon the inscribed date of Showa 31 on the accompanying paraphenalia that came with this print]
 Edition35/100 (see below)
 Publisher
Shinagawa seal used by the printing and publishing house Kyoto Hanga-in.
Seal of Shinagawa Kyoomi




stamped information on print's verso
 Impression excellent
 Colors excellent
 Condition excellent - light handling creases; diagonal crease lower left corner of margin
 Genre fukusei hanga
 Miscellaneous 
 Format 
 H x W Paper 9 15/16 x 12 7/8 in. (25.2 x 32.7 cm)
 H x W Image 5 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. (14 x 18.4 cm)
 Collections This Print 
 Reference Literature  
last revision:
3/15/2019 created