A pale moon above a domed temple in turquoise dusk

A full moon hangs in a turquoise evening sky above the Tsukiji Hongan-ji, the Tokyo temple Itō Chūta built in Indian style. Hasui renders its great dome, rose window and carved stonework almost entirely in blue-green, so the building reads as a silhouette holding detail rather than a lit facade. A small figure with a cart stands at the foot of the steps, and dark foliage closes the lower corners. The pale gold moon is the only warm note on the sheet.

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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