Fuji pale beyond a boat moored at the breakwater

A bright blue bay lies in flat calm, with Fuji pale and snow-capped in the distance between two green headlands. A wooden boat is moored against a curving stone breakwater in the foreground, its reflection clear beneath it; a second stone jetty enters at the lower left. Pines grow from the rocks at the right, and thin white cloud crosses the upper sky.

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.