{"product_id":"kawase-hasui-40-prints-paperback","title":"Kawase Hasui 40 Prints - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCristina Berna\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eEric Thomsen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHasui Kawase (川瀬 巴水, May 18, 1883 - November 7, 1957) was a Japanese artist that took up ukiyo-e printing as it disappeared as a commercial printing form and instead became an art for its own sake, so to say.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Hokusai and Hiroshige s time, first half of the 1800s, ukiyo-e prints were cheap - around the price of a bowl of soup -and filled the market which would later develop in postcards and magazines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHasui designed traditional prints in a western style, mostly landscapes, often with special lighting effects like evening og night and special weather conditions- he was fond of showing temples and shrines in snow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe worked closely with a single publisher - Shōzaburō Watanabe - throughout his life. The Great Kantō earthquake in 1923 destroyed Watanabe's workshop, including the finished woodblocks for the yet-undistributed prints and Hasui's sketchbooks. He lost 188 sketchbooks in which he had drawn landscapes and other subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1956, he was named a Japanese Living National Treasure. The government Committee for the Preservation of Intangible Cultural Treasures had intended to honor traditional printmaking via awards to Hasui and Ito Shinsui in 1953.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.25 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 27, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42685494296639,"sku":"9787297443925","price":86.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/cb234b1e8ec4ecf35261b01fd4096017.webp?v=1764971189","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/kawase-hasui-40-prints-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}