Snow at Nezu Gongen Shrine Metal Print

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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 wrestle...

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