Hasui Kawase, Japanese Woodblock Prints (1920s-1950s)

1883-1957

Hasui Kawase was an artist, one of modern Japan's most important and prolific printmakers. He was a prominent designer of the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement, whose artists depicted traditional subjects with a style influenced by Western art. Like many earlier ukiyo-e prints, Hasui's works were commonly landscapes, but displayed atmospheric effects and natural lighting.

Hasui designed approximately 620 prints over a career that spanned nearly 40 forty years. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasui_Kawase

Evening Snow at Terashima Village, 1920.

Pond at Benten Shrine in Shiba, 1929.

Nikkō Kaidō, 1930.

Costal Landscape, 1927.

Zōjō-ji in Shiba, 1925.

Sunset at Ichinokura, 1928.

Autumn Rainbow at Hatta, Kaga, 1924.

Spring Night at Inokashira, 1931.

Snow on Lake, 1922.

Kankai Pavillion at Wakaura Beach, 1950.

Moon over Arakawa River, 1929

Spring Moon at Ninomiya Beach, 1931.

Winter Moon at Toyamagahara, 1931.

Crescent Moon and Tea Houses, Kanazawa, 1920s.

Hikawa Park in Omiya, 1930.

Moon Over Akebi Bridge, 1935.

Moon at Magome, 1930.

 In the final year of his life, the Japanese government classified Hasui as a Living National Treasure. Comparable to the American National Medal of Arts and Humanities, Japan’s highest civilian honor is bestowed upon those whose life’s work renders them, in what may be the most poetic government certification in any language, “Preservers of Important Intangible Cultural Properties.”

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