Fuji floats above Tagonoura bridge in the blue of evening

Poets have stood on this shore for thirteen hundred years. Tago Bay is where Yamabe no Akahito watched snow fall on Fuji in one of the most famous poems in the Japanese language, and Hasui knew exactly what he was doing when he set his easel here: a wooden bridge, a quiet river mouth, green banks in morning light — and Fuji rising beyond with a collar of cloud. Where his rain and moon prints hold the night, this one opens the day.

Kawase Hasui (1883–1957) was the master of shin-hanga, the movement that took ukiyo-e's centuries of woodblock craft and turned them toward mood, weather, and light.

This print is hand-printed on Hahnemühle German Etching paper using a 12-ink archival giclée process. Museum studios use this same paper stock. Each print is individually crafted to museum conservation standards, acid-free and rated for 200+ years of color stability. Whether unframed or displayed in one of our hand-made FSC-certified wood frames, this is a collector-grade piece, not a poster.