Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)
Blossoming cherry trees between stonewalls of a castle ruin.
Title: Shirakawajôshi no sakura (Cherry blossoms at Shirakawa castle ruins)
Signature: Hasui
Seal: Kawase
Publisher: Watanabe (seal Hotei A – 6 mm)
Date: Shôwa 21 (1946)
Size: Oban, 24,3 x 36,2 cm
Very nice impression and fine colours. Colour variant of the print in Hotei's catalogue raisonné: here with another colour gradation of the cherry blossoms. With relief printing. Early print, at lower left the round 6 mm-Watanabe-seal. Smoothed creases, otherwise very good condition.
Hotei No 483 (Narazaki 468).
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