Breakers roll in under a pink dawn below ochre cliffs

Waves roll towards the viewer across a sea of mauve and purple, their crests breaking white, while a dawn sky grades from deep blue at the top through bands of pink-lit cloud. A headland of ochre cliffs capped with green stands at the upper left and a tall rock stack rises from the water at the right. Dark red-brown rocks break the surf at the lower left, and the whole foreground is wet sand and spent foam, printed in pink and lavender.

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.

Printed as a museum-grade giclée on Hahnemühle fine art paper using 12-ink archival pigment printing. Available handframed in FSC-certified wood with optional float glass, or unframed. Ships worldwide with free delivery to 30+ countries.