A small boat drifts on a green lake below forested hills

A lake of still green water mirrors the dense forested hills that rise straight from its far shore, and above them a purple-grey mountain with a pale rock face stands under a blue sky with white cumulus. A small yellow boat carries two figures across the middle of the lake, one of them standing. In the foreground mossy banks reach into the water beside a pale flat-topped rock, and the near shallows turn blue with the reflected 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.