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A Print by Kawase Hasui – “Zentsu-Ji Temple” browse these categories for related items... All Items: Fine Art:Prints:Woodcuts: Pre 1960: item # 909571 Please refer to our stock # ICHI 2601 when inquiring.
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This is one of the famous prints by the shin-hanga painter Kawase Hasui titled “Zentsu-Ji Temple”. It portrays a magnificent temple at To-Ji, Japan for the followers of the branch of Buddhism called Shingon-shū. The print shows visitors with umbrellas going through the main gate to the temple as it is raining . In the misty background the pagoda of the temple can be seen. This posthumous print was printed sometime between 1945 and 1957 and shows minimal fading. The image is 14 ˝“ by 9 ˝” and is framed. It has the printed seal and signature of Hasui and the Watanabe publisher seal. It has fine color and impression with full margins. Hawase Hasui,1883 – 1957, was a prominent Japanese painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and one of the chief print makers in the shin hanga ("new prints") movement. Hasui studied ukiyo-e and Japanese style painting at the studio of Kaburagi Kiyokata 1878-1973).In the early Taishō period Hasui was recruited by the publisher Watanabe Shozaburo, with the intention to design works for woodblock prints. In the West, Hasui is mainly known as a Japanese woodblock printmaker During the forty years of his artistic career, Hasui worked closely with Watanabe Shozaburo, publisher and advocate of the shin hanga movement In 1956, he was named a Living National Treasure |
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