Moon at Umagome (Uragome no tsuki) - from Twenty Views of Tokyo

 

Kawase Hasui

  1883 - 1957 (biography)

1930 / printed c. 1948 

color woodcut 

14 5/16 x 9 1/2" image - oban tate-e 

Hasui signature with Kawase seal, within image lower left 

ca 2000 impressions were printed 

Watanabe seal J in image, lower right corner (black ink); title stamp in lower left margin 

Hasui N 165 

ivory laid Japanese 

published (printed circa 1948, lifetime edition) 

Watanabe (6mm seal in image, black ink, lower right corner) 

CM107 

$4,800.00 

One of Hasui's most well-recognised works, "Moon at Umagome" graces the cover of Kendall H. Brown's definitive catalogue raisonne of his woodcuts, Kawase Hasui: The Complete Woodcuts.