Last patches of snow on the banks of a deep blue pond

A dark wall of tall cedars stands along the far shore of a pond under a pale sky banded with cloud. Patches of snow still lie on the banks and on a spit of shore in the foreground, and clumps of dry tan reeds stand on small islets and at the water's edge. The pond itself is a deep, even blue, and a single waterbird crosses it near the far bank trailing a thin white wake.

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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