Snow-laden pines lean over a dark pond as the flakes keep falling

Three tall pines with dark trunks stand across the sheet, every branch heaped with snow, their boughs arching over the scene. Snow keeps falling from a grey-blue sky. A snowy bank in the foreground is tufted with dry tan grass, and beyond it a dark blue pond stretches to a snow-covered islet and a far shore of white ground and bare trees.

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.