Outstanding woodblock artist Kawase Hasui

Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) is an ukiyo-e artist, woodblock printmaker in Taisho and Showa Period in Japan. His real name is Kawase Bunjiro.

He was one of the artists who established Shin-hanga (new ukiyo-e woodblock prints) including Yoshida Hiroshi, Ito Shinsui, Takahashi Shotei, and Tsuchiya Koitsu. They worked artistic activity to revive the declined Japanese ukiyo-e. 

He expresses Japanese beautiful landscapes richly and people call him as “Travelling mood poet” “Travelling Printmaker” “Utagawa Hiroshige of Showa”.

Hasui gets a high evaluation abroad rather than in the country. Of course, Katsushika Hokusai or Utagawa Hiroshige is famous in Japan but the many Japanese people don’t know the name of Kawase Hasui.

Biography of Kawase Hasui

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Kawase Hasui:biography, woodblock prints artworks and for sale

Kawase Hasui(1883-1957)Kawase Hasui(川瀬巴水)  was a modern Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print(shin-hanga) artist who played an active part in the early 1900s and the middle. Unfortunately, comparing to Katushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige, he has not been so well-known in Japan. But he left 467 works of woodcut prints and received high praise from the other countries. Kawase Hasui's biography  Kawase Hasui(in 1939)  from WikipediaKawase Bunjiro(川瀬文治郎) was born in Shiba, ...

The posters of Kawase Hasui’s artworks

Popular works

The Road to Nikko (1930)

Benten Pond at Shiba (1929)

Snow at Zojoji Temple Shiba (1925)

Zojoji Temple in Snow (1929)

Spring Moon at Ninomiya (1932)

Miyajima Shrine in Snow (c. 1930)

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Cherry blossom

Snow

Rain

Moon

River

Mountain

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