Morning in Beppu (Translation)
Japanese Sceneries (Series Title)
日本風景選集 別府の朝 (Primary Title)
Kawase Hasui 川瀬巴水, Japanese, 1883 - 1957 (Artist)
Watanabe Shōzaburō 渡邊庄三郎, Japanese, 1885 - 1962 (Publisher)
In 1922 Hasui traveled from Tokyo to western Japan, making sketches in preparation for the series Japanese Sceneries. He visited Beppu on Kyushu Island, a port known for its hot springs. In Morning in Beppu, he depicted a seascape of fishing boats just returning to the shore, where a fisherman is selling products to the locals. The artist used a yellow hue to define the morning glow above the distant mountains. In 1923 when the Great Earthquake struck Tokyo, like many of Hasui’s prints and original woodblocks, the woodblock of this print was destroyed.
Taisho period (1912-1926)
巴水 Hasui
Artist's seal; Publisher's seal Watanabe Shōzaburō
別府の朝 大正十一年作
René and Carolyn Balcer Collection
Brown, Kendall. Water and Shadow: Kawase Hasui and Japanese Landscape Prints. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2014.
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