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.
Near Susono at the eastern base of Mount Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture, the lower slopes of the mountain are visible through gaps in the forest, and the village of Susono itself sits in a broad agricultural plain. This 1930 print likely shows Fuji from close range at the mountain's base — a perspective that emphasizes the lower slope topography rather than the distant, symmetrical mountain-from-water-surface view. Susono fukin (the Susono area) was a working agricultural community, and Hasui's view likely included farmland.
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.
Near Susono (Susono fukin) was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in 1930.
Near Susono (Susono fukin) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1930).
Near Susono (Susono fukin) depicts landscapes, mount fuji, and mountains.
