{"product_id":"hasui-巴水-winter-moon-over-toyama-plain-戸山ヶ原-1","title":"Hasui 巴水: Winter Moon over Toyama Plain 戸山ヶ原","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist:\u003c\/strong\u003e Kawase Hasui 巴水\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Winter Moon over Toyama Plain 戸山ヶ原 Fuyu no tsuki (Toyomagahara)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1931, Winter 昭和六年十二月 (this edition is postwar)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe full moon glows with mesmerizing power between branches of trees and their elegant winter silhouettes. A soft mist obscures the distant city lights, which shine with an unfaded yellow gleam. The coloration of the foreground blends beautifully from earth to mist, and then to sky. Hasui depicted a very similar view in 1920. About that 1920 design, he wrote: “I wanted to depict the winter moon... Even though night had just fallen, the scene was deserted in the cold, withered and wintry group of trees, eerie in the blurred lights visible in the distant forest. The moon casts a pale blue light.” The Toyama Plain is today part of Tokyo’s Shinjuku ward and no doubt is today much more like a concrete forest compared to this serene view of nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThis is from the postwar, lifetime edition that was published by Doi Hangaten after WWII.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003ePlease note that there are very recent woodblock printed reproductions of this design that are surfacing on the market, and include a rather poor facsimile of the earliest Doi Sadaichi seal at left. One can tell at a glance that those works are recently printed and are completely different, and the feeling is more like a poster reproduction of this original design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very good impression, color and condition. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e ôban 39 x 26.3 cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Doi Hangaten\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterature:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hotei #260. See LACMA, MFA Boston, Chazen, Saint Louis Art Museum, Art Institute of Chicago collections online.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSignature:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hasui\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kawase Hasui","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42630607503442,"sku":"HAS659","price":3600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0079\/3388\/6546\/files\/HAS659.jpg?v=1787027455","url":"https:\/\/egenolfgallery.com\/ja\/products\/hasui-%e5%b7%b4%e6%b0%b4-winter-moon-over-toyama-plain-%e6%88%b8%e5%b1%b1%e3%83%b6%e5%8e%9f-1","provider":"Egenolf Gallery Japanese Prints","version":"1.0","type":"link"}