Kawase Hasui — Pacific Ocean Print | Japanese Woodblock Print (Shin Hanga)

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Kawase Hasui — Pacific Ocean Print | Japanese Woodblock Print (Shin Hanga)Kawase Hasui (18831957) was a master of shin hanga, the revolutionary "new woodblock" movement that transformed Japanese printmaking in the 20th century. Hasui is celebrated for his luminous night scenesmoonlit temples, rain soaked streets, nocturnal water landscapeseach rendered with atmospheric depth and subtle color that evoke mood over mere representation. His works epitomize shin hanga's marriage of traditional ukiyo e technique with modernist

sleeping cats — mix wit and technical mastery in a voice entirely his own

Nishimura Shigenaga (1697–1756) was one of the key early masters of the Edo-period woodblock print — a printmaker who worked in the period before Harunobu's colour prints and whose compositions laid the formal groundwork for the great flowering of ukiyo-e

hangs in the Gunma Museum of Art and remains one of the most extraordinary cultural artefacts of the Meiji encounter with Western art — a Buddhist subject rendered with European academic grandeur

Du Fu (712–770) is one of the most celebrated poets in the history of Chinese literature — paired with Li Bai as one of the two supreme poets of the Tang dynasty

leaving a compact body of work that is increasingly recognised as a masterpiece of the dark-Symbolist tradition

which introduced the aesthetic values of Chinese scholarly painting to a Japanese audience

arranged in a standardised layout of circular

vintage equestrian art holds an enduring place in the collector market and in the domestic spaces of those who value sporting heritage and graphic refinement

perfectly observed — remain the most collectable of all Shin Hanga prints and are held in major museum collections worldwide

and the Chester Beatty Library — it is the most visually distinctive of all surviving early Quran manuscripts and one of the supreme achievements of Islamic calligraphic art

anticipate Art Nouveau by a decade and make him one of the most historically significant figures in the transition from Victorian decorative art to early modernism

became the most widely loved works of the Sōsaku-hanga movement and remain among the most collected Japanese prints of the 20th century

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