Hasui: Mt. Fuji
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Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)

Mount Fuji rises majestically above Lake Yamanaka, its peak bathed in the brilliant bright orange-red reflection of the rising sun.

Title: Yamanaka-ko no akatsuki (Morning dawn at Lake Yamanaka).

Signature: Hasui. Seal: Kawase (o. Sui)

Publisher: Watanabe Shôzaburô, Tokyo (Seal Hotei E)

Date: Shôwa 6 (1931)

Size: Vertical Ôban, 36.5 x 23.6 cm (image size)

Excellent impression, colours and condition. An early impression of this splendid image, printed between 1931 and 1941. Verso faint attachment traces in both upper corners, else fine condition. Verso in lower margin a small stamp "Made in Japan". Ex Robert O. Muller Collection.

Hotei no. 252 (Narazaki 383). Cf. also Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Juda Coll., no. M.73.37.114), Art Institute of Chicago, no. 1961.218.

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