Namari Spa, Iwate Prefecture (Iwate ken Namari onsen)
by Kawase Hasui
- Date:
- 1943
- 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.
Namari Spa in Iwate Prefecture, published in 1943, depicts the Namari Onsen hot spring resort in the Hachimantai mountains of Iwate — a remote mountain spa in the geothermally active highlands of northern Honshu, surrounded by beech and birch forest. The Nude tag indicates this composition likely includes a figure bathing at or in the outdoor spa bath rather than a pure landscape, making it one of the few figure-inclusive subjects in Hasui's catalog. The wartime 1943 date and remote Iwate location suggest this was produced during a period when Hasui documented out-of-the-way domestic subjects as urban travel became more restricted.
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Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Namari Spa, Iwate Prefecture (Iwate ken Namari onsen) was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in 1943.
Namari Spa, Iwate Prefecture (Iwate ken Namari onsen) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1943).
Namari Spa, Iwate Prefecture (Iwate ken Namari onsen) depicts nude.
