Hasui: Die Straße nach Nikkô
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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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