Evening Rain in Kawarago

 

Kawase Hasui

  1883 - 1957 (biography)

1947  

color woodcut 

13 7/8 x 9 9/16" image size 

"Hasui" signature with "Kawase" red seal, lower left 

 

annotated in Japanese along left margin: Kawarago no yao on the left margin followed by the date, Showa nijuninen saku (Showa 22 [1947] 

Hotei 504, illustrated on page 547; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, 1986, p. 77, pl. 95; Visions of Japan: Kawase Hasui's Masterpieces, Kendall H. Brown, Hotei Publishing, 2004, p. 123, pl. 87 

ivory laid Japanese 

published 

Watanabe Shozaburo; A seal, lower left corner. 

CAAL195 

SOLD

Hasui is noted for his remarkable images that include snow and rain, such as in this print depicting a street in Kawarago, a Japanese fishing village on the beach in Hitachi city, Ibaraki Prefecture in the northern Kanto region of Japan. Kawarago is noted for its beach, which was totally destroyed in the tsunami of 2011. After the end of the war Hasui returned to the imagery of his early success, re-examining the villages and landscape of post-war Japan. In this work rain water runs through the street at night while inside the houses lanterns are lit and all is safe, for the moment. This impression is from the collection of the California print collector, Roger Epperson. Impressions of this image will vary in color.