Kasamatsu Shiro (Japanese, 1898-1991), Hazy Evening on the Shore of Shinobazu Pond

Ink and colors on paper, woodblock print, a red artist seal to lower left corner of print, title and date in Japanese to left margin, published by Watanabe with his "E" seal type to the lower right margin, presented under glass professionally framed with a mat in a dark wood frame with rounded corners.

Frame dimensions 20 3/4 x 16 3/4 in., Sight size 14 3/4 x 10 in.

From the Collection of Commander Louis B. Spaeth, U.S. Naval Intelligence/OSS, and by descent.

Purchased in Japan during the late 1940s.

Shiro Kasamatsu began his career in the studio of the great painter and teacher, Kaburagi Kiyokata (1878-1972) where he also was introduced to the innovative publisher, Watanabe Shozaburo (1885-1962) who was at the forefront of the shin-hanga (new print) movement. Watanabe published Shiro's first print in 1919, relatively early in the evolution of shin-hanga, and published over 50 more until the early 1940s. In the late 1940s Shiro began to produce prints with other publishers including Kinjiro and Unsodo. In the 1950s Shiro boldly changed modes and began carving and printing his own works in the manner of the sosaku-hanga (creative print) movement, eventually producing 119 of his own works.

Very good condition; mark to lower right corner of the print; not examined outside of the frame.

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