Design:	Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)
	Title:	Tengu Rock at Shiobara
	Size:	36.5 x 24.0 cm (oban)
	Posthumous printing from the original woodblocks
	Photography:	Theo Janssen

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Enlargement

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Artist’s seal in right print area:

The kanji used in this seal are:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
巴	ha	comma-design
水	sui	water	Hasui

Print title and original publishing date in left margin:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
塩	shio	salt
原	bara	wilderness
野	no	field	Autumn
秋	aki	autumn	at Shiobara
(天	ten	heaven
狗	gu	dog	Tengu
岩)	iwa	rock	Rock
昭	shō	clear
和	wa	peace
二	ni	two	Made in the
十	jū	ten	25th year of
五	go	five	the Shōwa
年	nen	year	era
作	saku	make	(= 1950)

Publisher’s black 7 mm seal in bottom left corner of print area:

and publisher’s red Heisei seal in right margin:

Character	Reading	Translation
わ	wa
た	ta
な	na	Watanabe
べ	be	Shōzaburō

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References

• Brown, Kendall H. (2003, 2008). Kawase Hasui. The complete woodblock prints (2 volumes). Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing.

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Provenance: Ukiyo-e Gallery