Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 69039

Gion bashi bridge, Asakusa

Artist / 作者
Kawase Hasui川瀬巴水
Date / 年代
1924
Medium / 技法
浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Taisho / jaodb
Digital record / 画像記録
912 × 1200 px
Source collection / 所蔵元
Japanese Art Open Database
Published by / 公開者
白石カナ
Rights / 権利
No reusable image license documented
Attribution / 表記
Japanese Art Open Database

Catalog note / 解説

Kawase- Gion bashi- 1.jpg is: Offered for sale is a wonderful, first edition Japanese woodblock print by Kawase Hasui (1883-1957), titled Gionbashi Bridge, Asakusa, from the series Selection of Scenes of Japan, 1924. This design is illustrated at plate 113 of Kawase Hasui Mokuhangashu (Kawase Hasui Catalogue of Woodblock Prints), Narazaki, Muneshige, ed., (Tokyo: Kodansha & Mainichi Shinbun, 1979). It is part of a series of 36 aiban format prints that were published by Watanable Color Print Co. between 1922 and 1926 (Narazaki plates 82 -117). While this design bears a circular Watanabe seal in the lower right corner of the image, savvy Hasui collectors know that the post-earthquake designs…

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