Cloudy day at Mizuki, Ibaraki Prefecture (Mizuki no Komoribi), Kawese Hasui, artist, 1946, Tokyo, woodcut, Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) was probably the greatest single artist of Japan's shin-hanga ('modern print') movement of the early to mid 20th century. The British Museum website states : ‘he has now become recognised as Japan’s best print landscapist since Hiroshige’. A relatively late entrant into art, he was was initially compelled to work for the family rope and thread wholesale business. However, he approached Kiyokata Kaburagi to teach him, who initially rejected him and persuaded him to study western-style painting which he did for two years. He then reapplied as Kaburagi’s student, who this time accepted him. In 1917 he was attracted to an exhibition by Shinsui Ito (Eight Views of Omi), and then approached the great shin-hanga publisher Watanabe Shozaburo who got him to make three experimental prints. The rest is history: Hasui designed more than 600 woodblock prints in only 40 years, some printed in editions of up to 3000 impressions and enjoyed commercial success in Japan and internationally.
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