Catalog ID: 11079
Artist: Kawase Hasui
Medium: Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Series Title: Collection of Views of the Moto-Hakone
Edition: First and only
Date: 1935
Publisher: S. Watanabe Color Print Co.
Reference No.: Hotei #364
Size: 15 -1/2 x 10 -1/4 "
Condition: Very fine
Notes:
Artist: Kawase Hasui
Medium: Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Series Title: Collection of Views of the Moto-Hakone
Edition: First and only
Date: 1935
Publisher: S. Watanabe Color Print Co.
Reference No.: Hotei #364
Size: 15 -1/2 x 10 -1/4 "
Condition: Very fine
Notes:
'The Collection of Views of the Moto-Hakone Minami Mountain Villa' set consists of six untitled designs that were commissioned in 1935 by the Iwasaki family (Mitsubishi). The villa and surrounding property were converted into a resort before WWII, and the set was sold inside the Hotel de Yama gift shop to its foreign clientele. Each print was originally mounted (tipped) inside a cardboard mat with titles inscribed in English.
To this day, Hotel de Yama is a Western style resort hotel located right on Hakone’s Lake Ashi. It began as a vacation home for Koyata Iwasaki, nephew of Yataro Iwasaki, the founder of Mitsubishi.