Yanagi Ferry, Yoshino River (Yoshino Yanagi no watashi)
by Kawase Hasui
by Kawase Hasui
River, lake, and coastal scenes form the largest single category in Hasui's output — steady, popular subjects with consistent demand. Value is driven primarily by edition period (pre-war vs. postwar lifetime vs. posthumous), condition, and the presence of seasonal atmospheric effects. Night and rain variants of water scenes command 20–40% premiums over comparable daytime views. Postwar lifetime editions (1946–1957) bearing the small 6mm J-seal represent authentic lifetime impressions but from the artist's final decade.
The Yanagi Ferry on the Yoshino River in Nara Prefecture is a flat-bottomed boat crossing at a point where the river widens below the Yoshino mountain pilgrimage route. This 1950 print shows the ferry with its load of passengers on the wide Yoshino River, the mountains of the Yoshino range visible beyond. The river ferry subject gave Hasui a quintessentially traditional transportation form — unchanged for centuries — in a landscape associated with the spring cherry-blossom pilgrimages to Yoshino.
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.
Yanagi Ferry, Yoshino River (Yoshino Yanagi no watashi) was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in 1950.
Yanagi Ferry, Yoshino River (Yoshino Yanagi no watashi) uses Bokashi, on color woodblock print.
Yanagi Ferry, Yoshino River (Yoshino Yanagi no watashi) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1950).
Yanagi Ferry, Yoshino River (Yoshino Yanagi no watashi) depicts landscapes, boats & ships, and rivers & lakes.
