What did Hasui Kawase do?

Hasui Kawase made woodblock prints and was one of the most important modern Japanese artists. The woodblock printmaking genre, unique to Japan, grew out of 17th-century developments in printing and book publishing. Kawase was a prominent practitioner of the shin-hanga (“new prints”) movement, whose artists depicted traditional subjects with a style influenced by Western art. Like many earlier artists working in woodblock printmaking, Hasui primarily created richly atmospheric landscapes. They’re characterized by an emphasis on natural lighting and the artist’s effort to draw attention to the beauty of nature. Hasui created hundreds of prints over a career that spanned nearly forty years. On 1stDibs, find a range of original Japanese woodblock prints.