Zôjô-ji Temple in Shiba (Shiba Zôjô-ji), from the series Twenty Views of Tokyo (Tôkyô nijûkei)

東京十二景　「芝増上寺」

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

Japanese

Taishô era

1925 (Taishô 14)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.8 x 26.2 cm (15 1/4 x 10 5/16 in.)

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

Accession Number35.1890

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné VMFA, Water and Shadow (2014), #III.9; Brown, Kawase Hasui (2003), #147

DescriptionMFA impressions: 35.1890, 49.124

Signed Hasui
巴水

Marks Artist's seal: red circle with three petals

ProvenanceBy 1935, Mrs. Wilmot R. Evans, Boston; 1935, sold by Mrs. Evans to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 5, 1935)