Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) | Snow at Mukojima (Yuki no Mukojima) | Showa period, 20th century
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Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)
Snow at Mukojima (Yuki no Mukojima)
Showa period, 20th century
woodblock print, signed Hasui, sealed Kawase, publisher's red seal to the lower right Watanabe (Watanabe Shozaburo), dated Showa rokunen junigatsu saku (made in December 1931), postwar printing
Vertical oban: 38 x 26 cm., 15 x 10 in.
Mukojima is an area of Tokyo along the Sumida River. Heavy snow falls and covers the houses and boats; a man in the centre of the composition is steering his boat into an inlet.
For a different impression of the same print in the collection of the Museum of Replica Handbags s, Boston, accession number 38.698, go to: https://collections.mfa.org/objects/251271