Kawase Bunjiro Hasui
Image rights
The artworks in this database are protected by copyright and may not be reproduced without the permission of the rights holders. The artworks are reproduced in this database with a license from Bildupphovsrätt.
For condition report contact specialist
Selection of Views of the Tokaido: Banyu River (Tokaido fukei senshu: Banyugawa)
Woodblock print. Signed Hasui and sealed Kawase. Publisher's (Hotei 'C') seal at lower left, Hanmoto Watanabe hangaten (Publisher Watanabe print shop), 1931.
Oban yoko-e 26 x 38.3 cm.
Faded. Two holes to the upper margin. Pencil inscription and label to verso.
Provenance
From the private collection of Eskil Artberg (1886-1974), thence by descent within the family.
Owner and cofounder of Japanska Magasinet, an antique shop in Stockholm founded 1909 by Eskil and his brother John Artberg (1878–1933). The brothers were active in trading Japanese and Chinese works of Art and also contributing by lending objects to the early exhibitions of both Japanese Works of Art, such as for example the one in 1911 at Konstakademin of Art and Chinese Works of Art. The shop first focused on Japanese Works of Art and Japanese papers that they sold to the Swedish Artists of the early 20th century, then after the war when the interest of Japanese Art cooled of, Eskil came to focus more on Chinese Works of Art. Both the Etnographic Musuem in Stockholm and Östasiatiska Museet in Stockholm hold items that has been purchased from Japanska Magasinet.
Literature
Narazaki Muneshige, Kawase Hasui mokuhanga shu, 1979, p. 65, no. 174-a & 174-b
Kendall H. Brown, Kawase Hasui: The complete woodblock prints, 2003, p. 398, no. 217a & 217b