Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)
The torii of Miyajima (Itsukushima) Shrine on a starry night, the beach illuminated by a stone lantern.
Title: Hoshizukiyo (Miyajima) – Starry Night (Miyajima)
Series: Tabi miyage dai sanshû (Souvenirs of Travel, third series)
Signature: Hasui
Seal: Kawase (o. Sui)
Publisher: Watanabe Shôzaburô, Tokyo (seal Hotei D)
Date: Shôwa 3 (1928)
Size: Vertical Ôban, 36,2 x 23,8 cm (image size)
Early edition. Fine impression and colours. Verso in right margin a light smallish stain, in top margin two faint small remnants of previous attachment. Some very weak smoothed creases, small dog-ear bottom right corner. Overall excellent condition.
Probably Hasui's most atmospheric interpretation of this subject.
Hotei No. 140 (Narazaki 143). Cf. also Honolulu Museum of Art, No. 21001
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