Collection of Views of the Moto-Hakone Minami Mountain Villa (Moto-Hakone Minami sanso fukei shu)
Moto-Hakone Minami sanso fukei shu
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Collection of Views of the Moto-Hakone Minami Mountain Villa (Moto-Hakone Minami sanso fukei shu) is the privately commissioned cycle of Hakone landscapes that Kawase Hasui designed for Minami Hiroshi, the owner of a private mountain villa at Moto-Hakone on the eastern shore of Lake Ashinoko at the foot of Mount Hakone in southwestern Kanagawa Prefecture. The set belongs to the small but historically significant body of privately commissioned shin-hanga prints, a category of patronage that distinguished particular shin-hanga publishers and artists from the standard commercial market by addressing wealthy individual collectors who commissioned bespoke series of designs tied to a particular property, region, or personal interest, and that produced the most carefully realized printings of the entire shin-hanga corpus through the controlled editions and unstinted production budgets that private patronage allowed. The Moto-Hakone Minami sanso fukei shu records the landscape around the patron's mountain villa across the seasons and times of day, with each design treating a particular view of the lake, the surrounding mountains, or the villa's garden grounds as a self-contained meisho-e composition in the established shin-hanga vocabulary that Hasui and his publisher Watanabe Shozaburo had developed across the 1920s. The Hakone region, long established as one of the principal scenic destinations of central Japan through its hot springs, its position on the Tokaido, and its place in the meisho-e tradition that descended from Hiroshige and the late-Edo landscape masters, supplied Hasui with a subject of exceptional pictorial richness, and the privately commissioned cycle stands as one of the most sustained treatments of the region in his entire oeuvre. Within Hasui's career the project belongs to the body of prewar landscape work that established him as the great shin-hanga place portraitist alongside Yoshida Hiroshi, and modern scholarship treats the Minami sanso cycle as evidence of the private patronage that supplemented the standard commercial market for shin-hanga prints in the interwar period. Surviving impressions are valued for the unusually careful printing that private commissions characteristically received, and representative impressions are held by major Western collections of twentieth-century Japanese print where they document the patronage culture in which much of the most refined shin-hanga production was undertaken.
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Collection of Views of the Moto-Hakone Minami Mountain Villa (Moto-Hakone Minami sanso fukei shu) is the privately commissioned cycle of Hakone landscapes that Kawase Hasui designed for Minami Hiroshi, the owner of a private mountain villa at Moto-Hakone on the eastern shore of Lake Ashinoko at the foot of Mount Hakone in southwestern Kanagawa Prefecture. The set belongs to the small but historically significant body of privately commissioned shin-hanga prints, a category of patronage that distinguished particular shin-hanga publishers and artists from the standard commercial market by addressing wealthy individual collectors who commissioned bespoke series of designs tied to a particular property, region, or personal interest, and that produced the most carefully realized printings of the entire shin-hanga corpus through the controlled editions and unstinted production budgets that private patronage allowed. The Moto-Hakone Minami sanso fukei shu records the landscape around the patron's mountain villa across the seasons and times of day, with each design treating a particular view of the lake, the surrounding mountains, or the villa's garden grounds as a self-contained meisho-e composition in the established shin-hanga vocabulary that Hasui and his publisher Watanabe Shozaburo had developed across the 1920s. The Hakone region, long established as one of the principal scenic destinations of central Japan through its hot springs, its position on the Tokaido, and its place in the meisho-e tradition that descended from Hiroshige and the late-Edo landscape masters, supplied Hasui with a subject of exceptional pictorial richness, and the privately commissioned cycle stands as one of the most sustained treatments of the region in his entire oeuvre. Within Hasui's career the project belongs to the body of prewar landscape work that established him as the great shin-hanga place portraitist alongside Yoshida Hiroshi, and modern scholarship treats the Minami sanso cycle as evidence of the private patronage that supplemented the standard commercial market for shin-hanga prints in the interwar period. Surviving impressions are valued for the unusually careful printing that private commissions characteristically received, and representative impressions are held by major Western collections of twentieth-century Japanese print where they document the patronage culture in which much of the most refined shin-hanga production was undertaken.
The Collection of Views of the Moto-Hakone Minami Mountain Villa (Moto-Hakone Minami sanso fukei shu) series contains 1 prints, created by Kawase Hasui.
The Collection of Views of the Moto-Hakone Minami Mountain Villa (Moto-Hakone Minami sanso fukei shu) series was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水).
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