Snow at Nezu Gongen Shrine
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
Snow at Nezu Gongen Shrine
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Snow at Nezu Gongen Shrine. Hasui Kawase, 1935.
Snow at Nezu Gongen Shrine is a ukiyo-e woodblock print by the Japanese artist Hasui Kawase.
Hasui Kawase was one of modern Japan's most important and prolific printmakers. He was a prominent designer of the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement, whose artists depicted traditional subjects with a style influenced by Western art. Like many earlier ukiyo-e prints, Hasui's works were commonly landscapes, but displayed atmospheric effects and natural lighting, as can be seen at this snowy night at Terajima.
Hasui designed approximately 620 prints over a career that spanned nearly 40 forty years. Towards the end of his life the government recognized him as a Living National Treasure for his contribution to Japanese culture.
Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries that produced woodblock prints and paintings of individuals as female beauties, kabuki actors or sumo wrestlers and scenes from history and folk tales, travel scenes and landscapes, etc.
Woodblock printing in Japan was used in single art sheets and also for book printing during the Edo period (1603–1868). Similar to Western woodcut printmaking, it used water-based inks instead of oil-based.
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March 16th, 2021
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