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Shin Hanga prints

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	Design:	Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)
	Title:	Full moon at Magome
	Size:	36.4 x 24.0 cm (ōban)
	Posthumous printing from the original woodblocks
	Photography:	Theo Janssen

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Enlargement

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Artist’s seal in left 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
裏	ura	rear
米	kome	rice
の	no	his	Moon
月	tsuki	moon	at Umagome
昭	shō	clear	Made in the
和	wa	peace	5th year of
五	go	five	the Shōwa
年	nen	year	period
作	saku	make	(i.e., 1930)

Very faint publisher’s black 7 mm seal in bottom right corner of print area:

and publisher’s red Heisei seal in right margin:

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

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References

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

• Brown, Kendall H. (2004). Visions of Japan. Kawase Hasui’s Masterpieces. Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing.

• The Toledo Museum of Art, Ed. (1936). Modern Japanese prints: wood-block prints by ten artists. Ohio: Toledo.

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Provenance: Castle Fine Arts