Shin Bridge at Nikko
Kawase Hasui Catalogue

Shin Bridge at Nikko - Kawase Hasui Catalogue woodblock print
Artist
Kawase Hasui 川瀬巴水
English title
Shin Bridge at Nikko
Japanese title
日光神橋
Series
Date
Medium
Colour woodblock print on paper
Paper size (h × w)
Yatsugiri 八切
15.5 × 10.5 cm
Image size (h × w)
First edition seal
Subsequent seals
Edition size
Open
Post-war printed
Unknown
Posthumously printed
Unknown
Publisher
Watanabe Shozaburo 渡邊庄三郎
Carver
Printer
Subjects
Snow
Bridges
Canals, Creeks and Rivers
Postcards and Greeting Cards
Remarks
Image commissioned by the Japan Tourist Bureau in 1934. Four-and-a-half thousand prints were commissioned for Christmas cards.
Up to 8 different block sets have been identified after examining prints. Many of these prints had Robert O. Muller provenance and "Made in Japan" on verso. The print tipped into the 1951 Watanabe catalogue used a new and different block set to earlier prints.
Postcard republished for a privately published Hasui FDC/postcard set in 2012.
Catalogue number
KH745
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