Cloudy Day at Matsuye (Izumo Matsuye Kumoribi), from the series Souvenirs of Travels, Third Series (Tabi Miyage, Dai San Shu)

Hasui Kawase was one of Japan’s most important twentieth-century printmakers and a leading figure of the Shin-hanga movement. Born in Tokyo as Bunjiro Kawase, he originally worked in his family’s rope and thread business before dedicating himself fully to art after its collapse. He studied Japanese painting under Ki...