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.
Tagonoura Bridge, published in 1930, depicts the bridge over the Fujikawa river-mouth or the coastal inlet at Tagonoura — a bay in present-day Shizuoka Prefecture long celebrated in poetry (it appears in the Man'yoshu) as a vantage point for viewing Mount Fuji over the sea. The bridge spanning the inlet water with the possibility of Fuji visible in the background would have given Hasui a composition combining the local waterway with the iconic mountain whose presence pervades the eastern Shizuoka coastline. The [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) sky characteristic of this composition gives the coastal atmosphere its characteristically soft, mist-inflected quality.
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.
Tagonoura Bridge (Tagonourabashi) was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in 1930.
Tagonoura Bridge (Tagonourabashi) uses Bokashi, on color woodblock print.
Tagonoura Bridge (Tagonourabashi) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1930).
Tagonoura Bridge (Tagonourabashi) depicts landscapes and bridges.
