Rain at Uchi-Yamashita, Okayama

Catalog note / 解説

Note: Post-quake: Of the series of 36 listed by Merritt & Yamada, it looks like 6 are post-earthquake. Obviously, the subject image is not one of them. [ Editor's note: confirming this, Pachter identifies N#112 "Uchiyamashita, Okayama" as the first Hasui print after the earthquake.] Now, take a look at Toledo 1930, numbers 108-113. Blair lists them under "Selected Landscape Series (Fukei Senshu)", and indeed these are the 6 post-earthquake prints in the series. An interesting point (if there is one) is that according to Blair, No. 108 was an edition of 300, No. 109-111 were editions of 200, No. 112 shows as 100, and No. 113 shows as 300. Apparently the fixed edition size of 300 contemplated…