A lone figure passes a lit window under a full moon

A full moon hangs in a deep blue night sky above a Korean temple hall, its heavy tiled roof curving up at the eaves. In the foreground a lower tiled roof shelters a lattice window that glows orange from within. A man in white Korean dress walks away from the viewer along a stone wall, past a carved stone pedestal and a low stone marker, towards dark trees and a line of blue mountains. Pale flagstones lie across the ground in front.

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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