Inariyama, Nagano Prefecture (Nagano ken Inariyama)
by Kawase Hasui
by Kawase Hasui
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.
Inariyama in Nagano Prefecture, published in 1947, depicts the town of Inariyama in the Chikuma River valley of Nagano Prefecture — a historic post-town on the Hokkoku highway (the northern route connecting Edo with Kanazawa and the Sea of Japan coast) — in the mountain-valley landscape of the central Japanese Alps approach. Inariyama's position in the Chikuma River valley gave it a distinctive topography: the wide alluvial terrace above the river floor, with the high ridge of the North Alps visible in the distance. The 1947 postwar date suggests Hasui's return to Nagano landscape subjects after the wartime interruption.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Inariyama, Nagano Prefecture (Nagano ken Inariyama) was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in 1947.
Inariyama, Nagano Prefecture (Nagano ken Inariyama) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1947).
Inariyama, Nagano Prefecture (Nagano ken Inariyama) depicts landscapes, travel scenes, and mountains.
