Hasui 巴水: Seaside Cottage, Himi, Etchu 越中氷見光照寺 (SOLD)

Artist: Kawase Hasui 川瀬巴水 (1883-1957)
Title: Seaside Cottage, Himi, Etchu 越中氷見光照寺

Series: Souvenirs of Travels, Second Series (Tabi miyage dai nishû) 旅みやげ第二集
Date: 6 September 1921 大正十年九月六日 

A yellow-roofed wooden structure sits right on the shore of Toyama Bay on a warm day that seems to bring sun and rain at the same time. Puffy clouds rise up on the horizon, their dimensionality indicated by blue marks of the baren. The clouds probably mask a view of the distant Tateyama Mountain Range, whose peaks are visible as floating on the bay for only about 50 days per year. A man with a yellow parasol speaks with a worker insider the structure, which seems to store lengths of cordage of some kind. This area is still known for its abundant fishing, as Toyama Bay supports hundreds of species of fish, in a food chain fed by nutrient flow from the Northern Alps snowmelt. Toyama Bay is designated as on one of the Most Beautiful Bays in the world. A scarce, pre-earthquake design.

Condition: Excellent impression, color and condition. 
Dimensions: ôban (26.3 x 38.5 cm)
Publisher: Watanabe Shôzaburô
Literature: See the Art Institute of Chicago, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts museum collections. Narazaki Muneshige, Kawase Hasui mokuhanga shu, 1979,  no. 75. Kendall Brown, Kawase Hasui: The complete woodblock prints, 2003, p. 317, no. 75. Kendall Brown, Water and Shadow: Kawase Hasui and Japanese Landscape Prints, 2014, p. 138, no. IV.74.
Seal: Kawase  Signature: Hasui

SKU: HAC075W