Kanago Village, Ibaraki Prefecture (Kanagomura (Ibaraki ken))
by Kawase Hasui
- Date:
- 1954
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
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.
Kanago Village in Ibaraki Prefecture, published in 1954, depicts a rural settlement in the flat Ibaraki countryside — the Kanago village with its traditional farmhouses, rice paddies, and agricultural landscape of the Kanto plain's northeastern reaches. The 1954 late-career date and village subject reflect Hasui's sustained documentation of Japan's ordinary rural landscape alongside its celebrated scenic monuments, his eye for the beauty of modest village architecture and farm scenery providing a counterpoint to the grand landmarks that populate most of his catalog. The Village Scenes tag indicates an emphasis on domestic vernacular architecture.
Noka no aki (Miyagi ken Ayashi
1946
Color woodblock print
Woodblock print
1956
Color woodblock print
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Kanago Village, Ibaraki Prefecture (Kanagomura (Ibaraki ken)) was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in 1954.
Kanago Village, Ibaraki Prefecture (Kanagomura (Ibaraki ken)) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1954).
Kanago Village, Ibaraki Prefecture (Kanagomura (Ibaraki ken)) depicts village scenes.
