A crescent moon over dark trees mirrored in a lily pond

A crescent moon hangs in a deep blue night sky above a dark wall of trees along the far bank — tall cedars and rounded broadleaf crowns in silhouette. The pond below is a dark teal, the trees repeated in it as a soft reflection, and clusters of green lily pads float across its surface towards the viewer. A band of paler light lies on the water at the right.

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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