Kawase Hasui – Evening Snow at Edo River (Hasui Kawase – Fururu Yuki – Edogawa)

Original woodblock print. The first edition of this design was published in 1932. The current print is from a recent edition.

Two women cross a bridge over the Edo River on a winter evening, protected with umbrellas against calm snowfall. This is a very popular design by Kawase Hasui, and many variants are known. A quite common variant is even completely in tones of white and blue, but here the multicoloured version is shown. Kawase Hasui displayed a wide variety of themes, but together with night landscapes, winter scenes such as this one were one of his specialities.

Image size (excluding margins): 36.5 * 24.0 cm (14.4 * 9.4 in).

The print is in excellent condition.

The pictures shown here are from the print itself.

References: K.H. Brown, Kawase Hasui. The Complete Woodblock Prints, nr. 270, 2003, p. 426.

An overview of the woodblock prints by Kawase Hasui can be found here.

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