A full moon and two lamps light a stone bridge over dark water

A full moon glows through thin cloud in a deep blue night sky, and the fine bare branches of a tree spread across it from the left. A stone bridge of five arches spans the river, its arches doubled in the water below. Along the left bank a road runs beside a wall and hedge, two street lamps burning yellow on their posts near a telegraph pole. A pale mountain rises in the distance, and a rocky grey-blue 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.

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