Baishinji Beach, Iyo (Iyo Baishinji no hama)
by Kawase Hasui
- Date:
- 1950
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
by Kawase Hasui
Temple and shrine subjects form the backbone of Hasui's rural Japan repertoire — steady, consistently popular categories that hold value across all market conditions. Snow at temple subjects command the highest premiums (Snow at Tosho-gu Shrine in Ueno achieved $3,200 at Artelino; Saishoin Temple in the Snow reached $3,000). Standard pre-war temple scenes without snow trade between $1,000–$3,500. Postwar lifetime editions (1946–1957) bearing the small 6mm J-seal represent authentic lifetime impressions but from the artist's final decade.
Baishinji Beach in Iyo, published in 1950, depicts the shoreline at Baishinji — a beach on the Uwa Sea coast of Ehime Prefecture (Iyo Province) on Shikoku — where the warm Pacific waters of the Bungo Channel meet the sandy shore fronting the ancient Enshoji temple complex. The Iyo coast offers a different quality of light from the Inland Sea or Pacific subjects that dominate Hasui's coastal catalog: warmer, more sheltered, with the small islands and curved shorelines of the Uwa Sea visible in the middle distance. The 1950 date places this among his postwar Shikoku documentation.
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Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Baishinji Beach, Iyo (Iyo Baishinji no hama) was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in 1950.
Baishinji Beach, Iyo (Iyo Baishinji no hama) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1950).
Baishinji Beach, Iyo (Iyo Baishinji no hama) depicts seascapes.
