A full moon lays a silver path past a pavilion on the shore

A full moon hangs in a sky of graded blue above a calm bay. An open-sided pavilion with a curved tiled roof stands on stone footings at the water's edge, and a pine bough reaches across its roof from the right. A rowing boat with two figures aboard crosses the bay, and the moon's reflection runs down the water towards it as a broken path of silver. Low hills and a line of pines mark the far shore, and a grassy bank fills the foreground.

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.