A blue river winds through a green gorge below a distant peak

A blue river winds through a deep gorge between densely wooded green hills, its banks edged with pink-tan sandbars and rocks and its surface streaked with white ripples. Beyond the gorge, range after range of green mountains rises to a blue peak under white cumulus in a blue sky. A small thatched roof shows on the wooded slope at the left.

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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