Rainy Season at Ryoshimachi, Shinagawa
Artist: Kawase Hasui
Name: Rainy Season at Ryoshimachi, Shinagawa
Date: 1931
Description: Title Shinagawa first edition printing Artist Hasui Kawase 1883-1957 Signature Hasui Seal sui Dated 1931 Publisher Watanabe Technique/Medium Woodblock print Impression excellent – very good … (first edition printing) Colors very good Condition very good … light uneven toning, mounting residues on reverse upper margin, a pin hole on the upper left margin corner. Description From the series, “Tokaido Fukei Senshu” (Collection of Views of Tokaido).”Shinagawa” A fishing village at Shinagawa on a stormy day. The white areas of the printing indicating the splushes of the heavy rain on the roofs and buildings. (Click on the large image twice to See the image shown in the reference book). Note Watanabe copyright seal for (1927-32). Format Oban tate-e Width 10.4 inches = 26.5 cm Height 15.6 inches = 39.5 cm