Tamiya Village, Saitama (Saitama Tamiyamura)
by Kawase Hasui
- Date:
- 1941
- 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.
Tamiya Village in Saitama is a rural community in the agricultural flatlands north of Tokyo, its paddy fields and farmhouses representing the unspecialized Kanto landscape Hasui occasionally depicted as a counterpoint to his famous scenic views. This 1941 print likely shows the village in an unnamed season — possibly autumn, with harvested fields — the flat landscape of northern Saitama stretching to a low horizon. The village-scene format allowed Hasui to find pictorial value in the everyday rural Japan most artists overlooked.
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Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Tamiya Village, Saitama (Saitama Tamiyamura) was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in 1941.
Tamiya Village, Saitama (Saitama Tamiyamura) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1941).
Tamiya Village, Saitama (Saitama Tamiyamura) depicts village scenes.
