Shiro Kasamatsu Spring at the Moat Swans

Spring at the Moat 1957
16 1/8 by 11 inches
Artists Seal, later edition circa 1990
Carver Ohkura, Printer Ichimura
KAS10 $275

Shiro Kasamatsu (1894-1992) made over 50 woodblock prints for Watanabe. When fire destroyed Wantanabe's workshop during the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923, his prints were destroyed. Changing publishers to Unsodo in Kyoto, he created 102 prints. He later made about 80 prints in the Sosaku Hanga style in a wide range of subjects, with intense colors and beautiful night, animal & bird scenes.