Prints by Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) in Postcard SIze

Biography of Hasui Kawase
Miyajima
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Kawase Hasui made more than 600 woodblock prints in Oban size, But apart from this well-known main oeuvre there are also roughly more than hundred designs in small formats. With the famous Muller collection these smaller sizes came into the awareness of a wide public.

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Postcard Sizes and Mini Formats by Kawase Hasui

Smaller sized woodblock prints by Kawase Hasui come roughly in a postcard size or a mini format plus some size variations. They are commonly referred to as postcard sizes.

These designs show all landscape themes. As most of the Hasui prints in regular oban size, also most of the small postcard sizes were published by Watanabe. But one can find Hasui designs in postcard size also by publisher Bijutshusha.

The subjects were often taken from the regular oban size designs. But also new designs were created.

Postcard Sizes from the Muller Collection

The Hasui small format landscape prints had been well-known before. With the huge collection of shin hanga that came into the market after the death of dealer and collector Robert O. Muller in 2003, also larger numbers of postcard size prints by Hasui were made available for the market. As they had been stored over decades and never been framed, they were usually in excellent condition and well accepted by collectors worldwide.

Gallery of Hasui Postcard Prints

These smallest woodcut prints by Hasui usually have a price range of $ 150-300.

Woodblock Prints by Hasui
Zojoji Temple on a Snowy Day
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Japanese Prints - Home
Fisherman
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Japanese Prints
Walk in the Snow
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Japanese Prints
Hall of the Golden Hue
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Muller Collection
Mt. Fuji Seen from Village
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Shin Hanga Artists
Snowy Byodoin Temple
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Dieter Wanczura
(June 2009)

Literature source

"Kawase Hasui, The complete woodblock prints", Kendall H. Brown with an essay by Watanabe Shoichiro. General Editor: Amy Reigle Newland. Catalogue Contributors: Inge Klompmakers, Merel Molenaar, Amy Reigle Newland, Okura Haruko, Dick N.W. Raatgever, Robert Schaap and Chris Uhlenbeck. ISBN: 90 74822 46 0, 592 pp., 617 colour & 131 b/w illustrations, published by Brill in 2003.

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