Lit windows glow along a dark harbour street under moonlit cloud

A great dark tree spreads over a stone wall and a lattice-fronted house at the left of a night street in a small harbour town. Three telegraph poles stand against a deep blue sky where grey clouds drift, lit from behind by the moon. Across the road the houses are black shapes with windows glowing orange and red, a lone figure stands far down the street, and a strip of pale water shows at the centre with a boat on it. The whole scene is held in shades of blue and black.

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.