Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)
A farmer woman with a basket on her back on the way to Nikkô, shaded by huge old cedars.
Title: Nikkô kaidô (Die Straße nach Nikkô) The Nikkô highway
Signature: Hasui
Seal: Kawase (o. Sui)
Publisher: Watanabe, Tokio (round 6mm seal Hotei A)
Date: Shôwa 5 (1930)
Size: Vertical Ôban, 36,2 x 23,8 cm (image)
Very good impression and colours, Excellent condition. Woodgrain still very well visible in the sky. A bit later – lifetime – impression.
Hotei No. 211 (Narazaki 311). See also MFA Boston, 50.2852; Virigina Museum of Fine Arts, 2006.423
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