Nagahama Beach in Mito (Mito Nagahama)
by Kawase Hasui
- Date:
- 1937
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print; oban
- 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.
Nagahama Beach at Mito in Ibaraki Prefecture stretches along the Pacific coast south of the city, a broad sandy beach backed by pine groves. Hasui's 1937 [oban](/glossary/oban) likely shows the beach in a quiet season — the wide sand flat, the Pacific horizon, and the characteristic line of coastal pines that defines the eastern Japan shoreline from Choshi to Kashima. The broad, flat beach composition was a departure from the rocky cove and harbor views he produced elsewhere on the Ibaraki coast.
1940
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
Boshu Taikai
1925
Color woodblock print; oban
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Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Nagahama Beach in Mito (Mito Nagahama) was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in 1937.
Nagahama Beach in Mito (Mito Nagahama) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1937).
Nagahama Beach in Mito (Mito Nagahama) depicts seascapes.
