One yellow umbrella in the rain above a turquoise bay

Rain falls in long grey strokes over a fishing village seen from the hillside above it. One figure under a yellow umbrella walks a path between grey tiled roofs; a stone-walled channel and terraced green plots run down the foreground, with a small roofed shrine at the left. Beyond the harbour wall the bay is pale turquoise, holding a wooded rock islet and a blue headland behind it.

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.