Hasui: Komagata Embankment (SOLD)

Artist: Kawase Hasui
Title: Komagata Embankment (Komagatagashi)
Series: Twelve Scenes of Tokyo 
Date: 1919, Early Summer

Hasui wrote the following commentary on this design: “This is from a sketch that I made one summer afternoon in the front of a bamboo shop at the Komagata Riverbank in Asakusa. One is able to see the other side of the river through the bamboo stalks, which are stacked side-by-side, and in the shape of a half-opened fan. I thought the mood conveyed by the horse standing listlessly and the drayman slumbering on his dray was very summer-like”. From the series “Twelve Scenes of Tokyo”. Considered perhaps his finest summer scene.

Condition: Very good impression, color and condition.
Dimensions: Ôban 25.7 x 38.8 cm
Publisher: Watanabe
Literature: N#27; H#27. See “Water and Shadow” (2014), plate IV.27.
Seal: Artist's seal
Signature: Hasui with his seal

SKU: HAC027G