Hasui Kawase
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Hasui Kawase was a Japanese artist who was one of 20th century Japan's most important and prolific printmakers. He was a prominent designer of the shin-hanga movement, whose artists depicted tradition
Portrait of Hasui Kawase, 1939
Komagata Embankment, 1920. From series Twelve Scenes of Tokyo.
Zōjō-ji in Shiba, 1925. From series Twenty Views of Tōkyō.
Snow at Zōjō-ji, 1953
Shin-hanga
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Shin-hanga was an art movement in early 20th-century Japan, during the Taishō and Shōwa periods, that revitalized the traditional ukiyo-e art rooted in the Edo and Meiji periods. It maintained the tra
Hasui Kawase
…November 7, 1957) was a Japanese artist who was one of 20th century 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 yōga (Western-style painting). Like many earlier ukiyo-e…
Yokugo no onna (Woman at Her Bath), by Hashiguchi Goyō (published Feb. 1916). One of the first shin-hanga published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
Hikari umi (Glittering Sea), by Hiroshi Yoshida (1926)
Two Cockatoos on Plum Blossom Tree, by Ohara Koson (c. 1925–1935)