Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)
The Tsurugaoka Hachiman Shrine in Kamakura on a snowy day. View from the lower Maiden Pavilion to the main shrine (Hongû) above the stairs.
Title: Kamakura Hachiman-gû (The Hachiman Shrine in Kamakura)
Seal: Hasui
Publisher: Watanabe Shôzaburô, Tokyo
Date: 1936
Size: Vertical Koban, 17.5 x 11.4 cm (image)
Very good impression and colours. Paper only minimally age-toned. Top margin corners slightly thinner from verso, top right corner a tiny bit bevelled. Overall very nice condition.
Brown, Hotei No. Hb-s10. See also ibid, p. 136. From a series of twelve small size woodblock prints, printed by Watanabe in Tokyo for the book "Shintô and its Architecture" by Akiyama Aisaburô, first published in Kyoto in 1936 by the Japan Welcome Society (Kinki Kankô Kyôkai).
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