Artist: Kawase Hasui
Medium: Original Limited Edition Japanese Woodblock Print
Series Title: Snow
Edition: #224/350
Date: July, 1929
Publisher: Sakai/Kawaguchi
Reference No.: Hotei #181
Size: 15 -3/4 x 10 -1/2 "
Condition: Very fine
Notes:
A highly desirable limited edition snow scene, produced jointly by the Tokyo-based publishers Sakai and Kawaguchi. Red numbered seal, #224/350 and "Made in Japan", stamped on the reverse.
In addition to working with a number of publishers throughout his career Hasui also collaborated with many printers and carvers, whose skills were indispensable to the printmaking process and to the successful completion of a print. In particular, Hasui is known to have a close working relationship with one of Watanabe's printers, Ono Gintaro, who principally oversaw the printing of the artist's works. However, with the sixteen prints that Hasui produced under the joint publication of Sakai and Kawaguchi, the artist worked with the carver Maeda Kantaro and the printer Komatsu Wasakichi.