KAWASE HASUI (1883-1957), a Japanese coloured woodcut print, "Evening Snow of Terajima Village, winter 1920".

From the collection of Sigurd Yngve Eurén (1890-1990). A Swedish engineer, who initially came out to China in 1917 to work with setting up a net of radio masts. He then got a job building bridges over the many rivers that connected to the Yangtze river. After a couple of years, he moved to Shanghai and set up his own business exporting tea, with an office at the Bund. It was during the lively social gatherings in Shanghai he met his future wife, the American Pearl Lilian, who he married in 1925. They moved to a villa in the Shanghai and soon had two sons. He came to be factory manager and later on, Site Manager for Svenska Tändsticks Aktiebolaget (Swedish Match). When the war came he sent his family to America but stayed on during the Japanese invasion to watch over the company factories. His family later on settled in Djursholm, Stockholm, Sweden.

See similar at: Honolulu Museum of Art, object nr 12083;
Edo Tokyo Museum, object nr 94203205;
Museum of Fine arts Boston, nr 39.284;
Harvard Art Museum, nr 1941.52.
Chazen Museum of Art, nr 1980.741.

Kat Junz, comp., Kindai Nihon hanga taikei, 1975-76, Vol. I, pl. 194;
Narazaki Muneshige, Kawase Hasui mokuhanga sh, 1979, p. 24, nr. 35; Kendall H. Brown & Hollis Goodall-Cristante, Hollis, Shin-Hanga, New Prints in Modern Japan, 1996, p. 81, fig. 108; Kendall H. Brown, Kawase Hasui: The complete woodblock prints, 2003, p. 297, nr. 35; Kendall H. Brown, Visions of Japan: Kawase Hasui's Masterpieces, 2004, p. 40, nr. 4; Shimada City Museum, Kawase Hasui, The landscape woodblock prints of the Taisho and Showa periods, 2005, p. 34, nr. 34; Folk Museum of Ota City, Hasui Kawase, 2007, p. 24, nr. 10; Carolyn M. Putney, et. al., Fresh Impressions: Early Modern Japanese Prints, Toledo Museum of Art, 2013, p. 106, cat. nr. 36.