Autumn birches on a lakeshore before a pink volcanic peak

A stand of tall trees with pale grey trunks rises from a grassy bank, their dense crowns turned yellow-brown with autumn, and small shrubs beneath them have gone red-orange. Beyond the bank a blue lake stretches to a far shore where a volcanic cone stands lit pink by low sun, a pink cloud beside it and dark hills to the right. The sky grades from blue at the top to pale peach along the horizon.

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.