by Kawase Hasui
From Hasui's Eight Views of Korea or Korean Views Supplement — among his rarest subjects geographically. Korean landscapes represent a small but dedicated collecting niche, with particular interest from Korean and Korean-American buyers as well as scholars of Japanese colonial-era art. These prints are substantially rarer at auction than his Japanese subjects and can command unexpected premiums when the right buyer is present. Pre-war lifetime editions bearing the Watanabe copyright seal (A through G types, 1926–1944) are the most desirable.
Kaesong in Korea (Chosen Kaijo), from the Korean Views Supplement published in 1940, depicts the ancient city of Kaesong (Kaijo in Japanese) — the capital of the Goryeo dynasty from 918 to 1392, located in present-day North Korea just north of the 38th parallel — with its historic architecture and mountain setting. Kaesong's combination of ancient palace ruins, traditional Korean gabled architecture, and the mountain landscape of the Songdo (Kaesong) highlands gave Hasui a subject with both historical depth and the atmospheric mountain scenery he consistently favored. The Supplement series extended his Korean documentation to this historically significant former capital.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Kaesong, Korea (Chosen Kaijo), from the series "Korean Views Supplement (Zoku Chosen fukei)" was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in 1940.
Yes — Kaesong, Korea (Chosen Kaijo), from the series "Korean Views Supplement (Zoku Chosen fukei)" is part of the Korean Views Supplement series by Kawase Hasui.
Kaesong, Korea (Chosen Kaijo), from the series "Korean Views Supplement (Zoku Chosen fukei)" uses Bokashi, on color woodblock print; oban.
Kaesong, Korea (Chosen Kaijo), from the series "Korean Views Supplement (Zoku Chosen fukei)" was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1940).
