Nogami, Saitama Prefecture (Saitama ken Nogami-cho)
by Kawase Hasui
- Date:
- 1946
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
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.
Nogami in Saitama Prefecture is a rural community in the northern Saitama plain, its flat agricultural landscape of rice paddies and windbreaks typical of the Kanto lowlands. This 1946 postwar print captures a quiet rural scene — the kind of overlooked provincial subject Hasui consistently found picturesque. The flat terrain of northern Saitama gave Hasui a wide-sky, low-horizon composition unlike his mountain and coastal subjects.
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Color woodblock print; oban
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1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Nogami, Saitama Prefecture (Saitama ken Nogami-cho) was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in 1946.
Nogami, Saitama Prefecture (Saitama ken Nogami-cho) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1946).
Nogami, Saitama Prefecture (Saitama ken Nogami-cho) depicts landscapes and village scenes.
