Fuji rises white above a wide blue river and a boatman poling

Mount Fuji stands white-capped at the centre above folded blue-grey ranges, under a broad sky of blue scattered with white cumulus. A dark green line of trees runs along the far bank, and the river spreads in front of it in turquoise-blue, broken by long dark sandbars. A small boat carries two figures in dark blue, one standing to pole it, and a second boat lies drawn up on the near shore. The foreground is a dark mudbank tufted with dry tan grass.

Kawase Hasui (1883–1957) was the defining landscape artist of shin-hanga, the movement that carried Japanese woodblock printing into the twentieth century. From 1918 he worked with the publisher Watanabe Shōzaburō, travelling almost continuously through Japan and turning roadside sketches into prints of unusual atmospheric precision. Snow, rain and failing light were his real subjects, as much as any temple or harbour. In 1956 Japan recognised his woodblock technique as an Intangible Cultural Property. His prints are held by the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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