ukiyoe - hasui - C04 - Shinkawa Rive at Night - Postcard

Title : 夜の新川（yoru no Shinkawa / よる の しんかわ / Shinkawa Rive at Night, from the series “Twelve Scenes of Tokyo”) 「東京十二題」より Shinkawa is the name of a place in Chuō-ku, Tokyo, and this print depicts a storehouse lit by gaslights on a summer night. Artist :川瀬巴水 (Kawase Hasui / かわせ はすい) 川瀬巴水 (Kawase Hasui (May 18, 1883 - November 7, 1957)) was a woodblock print artist active during the Taisho and Showa periods. He established the world of new prints in an attempt to revive the declining Japanese ukiyoe prints. His works were highly acclaimed overseas, and he has been called the "Hiroshige of the Showa period. Please enjoy the world of more than 30 multi-coloured woodblock prints with deep impressions of ordinary Japanese scenes and characteristic blue. ＊Note: Created with colour correction based on ColBase (https://colbase.nich.go.jp/collection_items/tnm/A-9104?locale=ja) ＊Any of my designs can be transferred to over a thousand other items and adjust the design to fit the product if you needed.