The Pond at Benten Shrine in Shiba (Shiba Benten ike), Kawase Hasui Woodblock prints, roughly 11 x 16 inches (27 x 40 cm). As with most woodblock prints, there are several different “pulls” from the same block for this beautiful image designed by Japanese Shin Read More …
Need to cool off? Shiba (No) Zojo-ji, color woodblock print by Kawase Hasui. On Met Museum. Use Fullscreen link and download arrow.
Like his contemporary, Hiroshi Yoshida, Kawase Hasui was a renowned woodblock print artist of the Shin hanga, or “new prints” movement in early 20th Century Japan. Also like Yoshida, Hasui traveled extensively and produced images of a variety of locations, though not as much outside Read More …
Kawase Hasui was a Japanese printmaker, active in the first half of the 20th century, who created wonderfully subtle and entrancingly beautiful woodblock prints of landscape scenes. His images were sometimes brimming with light and the brilliant colors of Spring or Autumn at other times Read More …
A few paintings of Spring to mark the Vernal Equinox, and for those in the Southern Hemisphere, I’ve included Arthur Streeton’s Autumn (images above, bottom), to celebrate their oncoming season. The inclusion of JW Waterhouse’s Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May (images above, second from Read More …
Shiro Kasamatsu was a Japanese painter, print designer and printmaker active in the 20th century. Though he initially studied with Kaburagi Kiyokata —a master of the bijin-ga movement, which focused on figurative subjects — Kasamatsu chose landscape as his primary subject. Kasamatsu is known particularly Read More …