Summer Afternoon in Kanazawa (Kanazawa Shimo Honda-Cho), from the series Souvenirs of Travels, Second Series (Tabi-Miyage, Dai Ni 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...