Kawase Hasui, Lakeside Shower, Matsue, color woodblock print, 1932.
Signed Hasui in black ink, with the artist’s red seal Kawase, lower left. Published by Watanabe Shozaburo with the Watanabe 6mm round seal, lower right.
Horizontal ôban; Image size 14 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches (362 x 238 mm); sheet size approximately 15 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (391 x 264 mm).
A fine, atmospheric impression, with fresh colors; the full sheet, from a postwar edition; the full sheet, in excellent condition.
Literature: Narazaki Muneshige, Kawase Hasui mokuhanga shu, 1979, p. 111, pl 333; Kendall Brown, Kawase Hasui: The complete woodblock prints, 2003, Vol. I, p. 91; Vol. II, p. 425, no. 269; Koyama Shuko, Beautiful Shin Hanga- Revitalization of Ukiyo-e, Tokyo Metropolitan Edo-Tokyo Museum, 2009, p. 176, no. 4-53.
Collections: Art Institute of Chicago, Harvard Art Museum, University of Missouri Museum of Art and Archaeology, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art.
