Children play under a cherry tree in full blossom against blue sky

A cherry tree in full pink blossom arches across the sheet against a bright blue sky, its dark trunk leaning over a timber building with a white-plastered upper storey and a lattice window. A wooden fence runs along a stone base below. On the sandy ground three children play: a girl with cropped hair in a white apron over a red kimono and red geta walks past holding a small paper toy, and two more crouch together beside her, one in a dark patterned kimono and one in blue polka dots. Yellow-green foliage fills the right edge.

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.