Evening Snow at Terashima Village (Yuki ni kure no Terashima mura), from the series Twelve Scenes of Tokyo (Tôkyô jûnidai)

「東京十二題　雪に暮れの寺島村」

Kawase Hasui (Japanese, 1883–1957)
Publisher: Watanabe Shôzaburô (Japanese)

Japanese

Taishô era

1920 (Taishô 9), winter

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.5 x 26.5 cm (15 3/16 x 10 7/16 in.)

Credit Line Museum purchase with funds donated by Mrs. Charles Gaston Smith's Group

Accession Number39.284

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné VMFA, Water and Shadow (2014), #IV.35; Brown, Kawase Hasui (2003), #35

Signed Hasui
巴水

ProvenanceBy 1939, Yamanaka and Company, New York; 1939, sold by Yamanaka to the MFA for $20. (Accession Date: February 9, 1939)