Snow falling on a teahouse above a still green pond

A snow-laden pine leans out over the pond in the left foreground, its branches carrying thick white pads. Behind it a timber teahouse stands at the water's edge on posts, its deep roof heaped with snow and one interior panel glowing warm. Snow falls in small white flecks against a flat grey sky. The pond is printed in bands of pale green and blue-grey, and the clipped shrubs along the near bank are capped with white.

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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