Hasui 巴水: Morning at Takamatsu 高松の朝

Artist: Kawase Hasui 巴水 (1883-1957)Title: Morning at Takamatsu 高松の朝 Series: Hasui's Twelve Landscapes for Uchiwa-e (uchiwa-e junikei).Date: Undated (ca 1935) A traditional wooden sailboat sets out in light wind on a glassy sea. Takamatsu is the capital of Kagawa prefecture and faces the Inland Sea. This work is unfaded, in the soft and dreamy colors of the early edition. This series of twelve fan prints was first published by Haibara paper shop in about 1934 with the series title “Hasui’s Twelve Landscapes for Uchiwa”. Those were printed with the designs bordered within a printed fan shape. In 1935, the publisher Kato Junji acquired the rights to these designs, and had new blocks carved with the image contained within a square border, (although the original paper paspartout had a fan shape to it). These Kato Junji edition works have red seals verso that indicate the limited edition number, out of a total edition of 200 works. Note that it seems to be an error in the Brown/Hotei catalog