Foam laces a deep blue shore as the sun sets behind purple hills

A deep blue sea fills the lower sheet, its shallows laced with pale scalloped lines of foam around dark rocks. A rocky headland with a single pine on its crown stands at the centre with a smaller stack beside it, and a green slope rises at the lower right. A tiny sailboat sits far out on water flushed pink near the horizon. Beyond, a range of purple-mauve mountains stands under a yellow-green sky with clouds lit pink by the setting sun.

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.