HASUI - Japanese Woodblock Print SNOW RED TEMPLE 1929

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HASUI - Japanese Woodblock Print SNOW RED TEMPLE 1929:
$299.99

HASUI - Japanese Woodblock Print SNOW RED TEMPLE 1929
KAWASE HASUISnow at Ueno KiyomizudoDate: originally published in 1929 by Kawaguchi and Sakai, this is a Showa era printing from recarved blocks
Size: oban; approx. 10.5\" x 15.5\"
Condition: Fine, no flaws, uncirculated print, never framed
Impression: Fine, solid key lines, nice surface texture, tight registration
Color: Fine, deep saturated color and bleed through to verso
Documentation: Kawase Hasui: The Complete Woodblock Prints, Hotei, 2003 Known as the \"Thousand Arms Temple\" Kiyomizu-do scarcely evaded the conFlagration during the civil war of 1868 to survive today in senic Ueno Park, Tokyo. It was constructed in 1631 to pay homage to the Kannon of the 1,000 arms, and was modeled after the famous Kiyomizu temple in Kyoto. Couples who want to have children traditionally pray here, and the dolls on view inside represent gratitude from those who became fertile after praying to Kannon\'s image.

From 1925 to 1932, Hasui worked with several different publishers for reasons that were primarily economic. The sixteen prints that he designed for Kawaguchi and Sakai are considered among his finest work, especially the lavishly printed snow scenes.

KAWASE HASUI, who was born in Rogetu-cho in Shiba Ward (now Shimbashi), loved painting from the time he was a young boy, and learned how to paint from Bokusen Aoyagi, who lived in Shiba Shimmei-cho. At the age of 27, when he became the student of Kiyokata Kaburaki, he was given the trade name Hasui. After marriage, he lived in Atagoshita-machi in Shiba Ward, which was called Sendai Manor, and continued his activities as an artist. When he was 35, Hasui had some dramatic developments with woodblock prints produced by his fellow student Shinsui Ito and the woodblock merchant Shozaburo Watanabe.

Hasui received Watanabe’s patronage and published his first work “Shiobara Okanemichi” (The Okane Path at Shiobara) with him. He went on to successively release works that lyrically depicted the landscape of various places in Japan and was acclaimed the leading artist of newly styled woodblock prints at home and abroad. There are quite a few works about his hometown of Shiba, and his works include the pieces he produced to commemorate his registration as a cultural asset: “Sojoji no Yuki” (Snow at Sojoji Temple), “Tokyo Junikagetsu” (Twelve Months of Tokyo), “Azabu Ninohashi no Gogo” (Afternoon at Ninohashi in Azabu), “Shiba Zojoji” (Shiba Zojoji Temple), “Shin Tokyo Hyakkei” (One Hundred Views of New Tokyo), and the print for sale here, “Shiba Daimon no Yuki” (Snow at Shiba Daimon).

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