Getting to know Kawase Hasui ① Known as a travel poet

Kawase Hasui was one of the woodblock artists active from the Taisho to Showa periods.

Aiming to revive and revive the traditional woodblock printing technique known as Shinhanga

He is known as one of the leading painters of the art movement.

What is Shinhanga?

Traditional woodblock prints using Ukiyo-e techniques have been reborn as prints for a new era

It is Japanese art.

When I asked Hasui what his hobbies were,

He loved traveling and answered, "Traveling."

He traveled all over Japan and left behind many landscape paintings of the places he visited.

That is why he is called a "travel poet."

Speaking of woodblock prints

It is a collaboration between the engraver, printer and artist.

Hasui was an artist,

The entire work was created based on Hasui's ideas.

Kawase Hasui's masterpiece

"Shiba Zojoji Temple" is one example.

This work is particularly popular and has been printed the most.

There are many other pictures of this pattern.

Hasui's house is also nearby.

It is clear that they have been familiar with each other for a long time.

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Shiobara Okaneji's debut work was in 1918.