Kawase Hasui

Kawase Hasui

Kawase Hasui (川瀬 巴水, 1883 – 1957) was a Japanese woodblock printmaker in the early 20th century. He and Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950) are widely regarded as two of the greatest artists of the shin hanga style, and are known especially for their excellent landscape prints. During the forty years of his artistic career, Hasui worked closely with Watanabe Shozaburo(1885-1962), publisher and advocate of the shin hanga movement. His works became widely known in the West through American connoisseur Robert O. Muller (1911-2003). In 1956, he was named a Living National Treasure in Japan.

Artistic Style

Hasui worked almost exclusively on landscape and townscape prints based on sketches he made in Tokyo and during travels around Japan. However, his prints are not merely meisho (famous places) prints that are typical of earlier ukiyo-e masters such as Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). Hasui’s prints feature locale that are tranquil and obscure in urbanizing Japan. The dreamlike quality in Hasui’s prints epitomizes a yearning for the past and a preservation of the past in the midst of rapid modernization.

Important Works

*Twelve Scenes of Tokyo (1919-1921)
*Selections of Scenes of Japan (1922-1926)
*Snow at Zojo Temple (1953)
*Hall of the Golden Hue, Hiraizumi (1957; Hasui’s final work)

References

*Brown, Kendall and Newland, Amy Reigle. "Kawase Hasui: the Complete Woodblock Prints". Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2003.

External links

* [http://www.hanga.com/landscape/hasui/ Kawase Hasui] Information, print gallery,...
* [http://www.artelino.com/articles/hasui_kawase.asp Kawase Hasui] Information, auctions,...
* [http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/dreamWorlds/default.htm Dream Worlds: Modern Japanese Prints and Paintings from the Robert O. Muller Collection] Online Exhibition
* [http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=link;dtype=d;key=106576;page=701900101 Kawase Hasui's works at Los Angeles County Museum of Art]
* [http://spectacle.berkeley.edu/~fiorillo/index.html Viewing Japanese Prints]


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