![Arashiyama, Kyoto by Kawase Hasui — Japanese Color woodblock print, n.d. [1952]](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/c4955953-e084-6146-7246-7277f3a1949d/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
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.
Arashiyama in Kyoto, dated circa 1952, depicts the celebrated district on the western outskirts of Kyoto where the Oi River (Hozu River in its upper reaches) passes through a mountain gap flanked by the famous bamboo groves and the classical temple gardens of Tenryu-ji. Arashiyama in any season — cherry blossoms in spring, brilliant maple in autumn — is among Japan's most visited landscape destinations, and Hasui's postwar composition likely captures the river's sweeping curve through the wooded valley. The undated attribution (circa 1952) places this among Hasui's final-decade revisits to Kansai's celebrated landscapes.
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Color woodblock print; oban
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1920
Color woodblock print; oban
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Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Arashiyama, Kyoto was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in n.d. [1952].
Arashiyama, Kyoto uses Bokashi, Nishiki-e, and Moku-hanga, on color woodblock print.
Arashiyama, Kyoto was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (n.d. [1952]).
Arashiyama, Kyoto depicts rivers & lakes, trees, and mountains, set at Kyoto, Arashiyama.
Arashiyama, Kyoto measures 36.4 × 24.2 cm (Oban format).
