Edition period is the primary value driver for Hasui prints. Pre-war lifetime editions with the Watanabe copyright seal (A through D types) consistently achieve 3–5× the price of posthumous reprints of the same design. Condition is the second key factor — unfaded colors, full margins, and absence of foxing or staining are essential. Subject matter (snow > rain > night > other) provides a further modifier within each edition tier. This postwar design (1946–1957) bears the small 6mm J-seal on lifetime impressions — authentic but from the artist's final decade, when block quality had declined from peak period.
A Corridor at Miyajima, published in 1949, depicts the covered wooden walkway — the O-torii corridor or the inner cloisters — that connects the structures of Itsukushima Shrine on the sacred island of Miyajima in Hiroshima Bay. The corridors of Itsukushima, built on stilts over the tidal flats, have a quality of floating between land and sea, their dark wooden posts and white plank walkways creating strong linear perspective in any direction. Hasui visited Miyajima repeatedly across his career, and this 1949 postwar composition emphasizes the shrine's architectural interiority — the corridor rather than the iconic floating torii — finding intimacy within one of Japan's most visited monuments.
伏見稲荷
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
Uji Byodoin no ichibu
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
A Corridor at Miyajima (Miyajima no kairo) (Miyajima no kairo) was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in 1949.
A Corridor at Miyajima (Miyajima no kairo) uses Bokashi, Nishiki-e, and Moku-hanga, on color woodblock print.
A Corridor at Miyajima (Miyajima no kairo) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1949).
A Corridor at Miyajima (Miyajima no kairo) depicts temples & shrines, seascapes, and architecture, set at Miyajima.
A Corridor at Miyajima (Miyajima no kairo) measures 36.6 × 24.2 cm (Oban format).
