Spring Rain at Gokoku Temple
Kawase Hasui Catalogue

Spring Rain at Gokoku Temple - Kawase Hasui Catalogue woodblock print
Artist
Kawase Hasui 川瀬巴水
English title
Spring Rain at Gokoku Temple
Japanese title
春雨 (護国寺)
Series
Date
Medium
Colour woodblock print on paper
Paper size (h × w)
Oban 大判
40.5 × 27.3 cm
Image size (h × w)
36.4 × 24.1 cm
First edition seal
Doi Sadaichi
Subsequent seals
Edition size
Open
Post-war printed
Yes
Posthumously printed
Yes
Publisher
Doi Sadaichi 土井貞一
Carver
Katsumura Shozo
Printer
Matsushita Tamotsu
Subjects
Shrines and Temples
Rain
Spring
Tokyo 東京
Remarks
This print frequently seen unsealed without carver and printer's names. These were likely unauthorized prints made by Seki Kenji. The story related was that Seki was selling prints at department store printing demostrations and Mrs Doi happened one day to be at one of those. Seki was dismissed as head printer at Doi in 1990.
Catalogue number
KH353
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