![A Boat Laden with Masonry, Awa Province (Ishizumu fune [Boshu]), from the series "Souvenirs of Travel, First Series (Tabi miyage dai isshu)" by Kawase Hasui — Japanese Color woodblock print; oban, 1920](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/1d1e45a7-2153-e530-e16e-4ea11472525c/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
A Boat Laden with Masonry, Awa Province (Ishizumu fune [Boshu]), from the series "Souvenirs of Travel, First Series (Tabi miyage dai isshu)"
Ishizumu fune [Boshu]
by Kawase Hasui
- Date:
- 1920
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print; oban
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Typical Price
This coastal scene from the first Souvenirs of Travel series shows a stone-laden boat off the Awa Province shore. Lifetime editions typically sell for $400-$1,500. Published by Watanabe in the early 1920s, first-edition impressions bearing the small 6mm circular Watanabe seal are scarcer and can reach $2,500 or more.
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