Kawase Hasui
Visions of Japan
leiden
October 2004

Category
japanese woodblock prints
Shinhanga

Kawase hasui : Visions of Japan
Kendall Brown

October 2004  Kit Publishing,
144 pp., 8 1/4" x 11", 100 large color illustrations.
A selection of one hundred Japanese woodblock prints
masterpieces by Kawase Hasui (1883-1957), one of the
most important Shinhanga Japanese landscape artists of
the twentieth century.
Large full colour illustrations show the enormous variety
of snow, moon and rain scenes for which Hasui became
famous. Introduction to Kawase Hasui by Ken Brown.
(See also our publication ‘Kawase Hasui The complete
woodblock prints’, 2003).
"One hundred woodblock prints of the 20th-century
Japanese artist Hasui are cataloged in bright colors on
large pages roughly  9" x 11". Captions for the hundred
are grouped following the prints. With annotations which
are comments by Hasui on the particular print or
informative remarks by Narazaki Munishige, editor of a
book on the artist's woodblock prints, the captions are
instructive.Also  two introductory essays by Kendall H.
Brown.
The first is on the Japanese cultural sources of Hasui's
prints; the second focuses on Hasui's life and art. The
succinct text with the appealing pictures of numerous
prints offers an ideal introduction to and sampling of the
woodblock prints by this outstanding Japanese artist who
is regarded as one of the primary artists of the 20th-
century Japanese art movement known as "New prints"
(Shin-hanga).

                   Hardcover    $ 120.00