Landscape to City: 20th Century Japanese Prints Part II

Landscape to City: 20th Century Japanese Prints Part II

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 12. Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) | Morning in Dotonbori, Osaka (Osaka Dotonburi no asa) | Taisho period, early 20th century.

Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) | Morning in Dotonbori, Osaka (Osaka Dotonburi no asa) | Taisho period, early 20th century

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Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) 

Morning in Dotonbori, Osaka (Osaka Dotonburi no asa)

Taisho period, early 20th century 


woodblock print, from the series Souvenirs of Travel II (Tabi miyage dai nishu), signed Hasui and with artist's pre-earthquake diamond-shaped seal Kawase, publisher's circular seal Watanabe (Watanabe Shozaburo), dated Taisho ju, ni, juyon (14th February 1921)


Horizontal oban: 26 x 38.3 x cm., 10¼ x 15⅛ in. 

For a similar impression of the same print in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number 38.1605, go to:

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/251379