West Gate, Suwon, Korea, from the series "Korean Views Supplement" (Zoku Chosen fukei, Chosen Mizuhara Nishimon)
by Kawase Hasui
- Series:
- Korean Views Supplement
- Date:
- 1940
- Medium:
by Kawase Hasui
From Hasui's Eight Views of Korea or Korean Views Supplement — among his rarest subjects geographically. Korean landscapes represent a small but dedicated collecting niche, with particular interest from Korean and Korean-American buyers as well as scholars of Japanese colonial-era art. These prints are substantially rarer at auction than his Japanese subjects and can command unexpected premiums when the right buyer is present. Pre-war lifetime editions bearing the Watanabe copyright seal (A through G types, 1926–1944) are the most desirable.
The West Gate of Suwon (Hwaseong Fortress's Janganmun Gate) in Korea is one of four massive gates in the Joseon-era fortress walls surrounding the city, its two-story pavilion above a stone archway representative of the finest surviving military architecture of the period. This 1940 print from the Korean Views Supplement shows the gate with its stone walls and wooden upper pavilion, the fortress grounds visible beyond. Hasui applied the same architectural reverence to Korean gates as he brought to Japanese castle turrets and shrine gates.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
West Gate, Suwon, Korea, from the series "Korean Views Supplement" (Zoku Chosen fukei, Chosen Mizuhara Nishimon) was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in 1940.
Yes — West Gate, Suwon, Korea, from the series "Korean Views Supplement" (Zoku Chosen fukei, Chosen Mizuhara Nishimon) is part of the Korean Views Supplement series by Kawase Hasui.
West Gate, Suwon, Korea, from the series "Korean Views Supplement" (Zoku Chosen fukei, Chosen Mizuhara Nishimon) uses Bokashi, on color woodblock print.
West Gate, Suwon, Korea, from the series "Korean Views Supplement" (Zoku Chosen fukei, Chosen Mizuhara Nishimon) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1940).
West Gate, Suwon, Korea, from the series "Korean Views Supplement" (Zoku Chosen fukei, Chosen Mizuhara Nishimon) depicts architecture.
