Kawase Hasui

Kawase Hasui(1883年〜1957年）was one of the most active woodblock print artists of the Taisho and Showa periods.

He is known as one of the leading artists who led the art movement for the revival and return of the traditional woodblock printing technique called shin-hanga (new prints).
He is known as one of the leading artists who led the art movement to revive and restore the traditional woodblock print technique called shin-hanga.

What are new prints?

It is a Japanese art form that has been reborn as prints for a new era, replacing the traditional woodblock print technique Ukiyo-e.

What are your hobbies?
Hasui always answered, “Travel."
He loved traveling very much.
He traveled all over Japan and left many landscape paintings of the places he visited.
For this reason, he is called a “traveler's poet.

About woodblock prints.
A woodblock print is a collaboration of an engraver, a printer, and a painter.
Hasui was a painter,
Hasui Sui was a painter, but the entire work was created based on his ideas.

The most famous work of Hasui Kawase is “Shiba Zojoji Temple”.
Shiba Zojoji Temple” is one of Kawase Hasui's masterpieces.

This work is particularly popular and was the most widely printed.
There are several other paintings in this pattern.

Hasui's house is also located nearby, indicating that he was familiar with the area on a daily basis.