The first shin-hanga (literally “new print”) appeared on the market in 1915. Shozaburo Watanabe, a shrewd businessman who published and promulgated the form, wanted to create a new aesthetic while ...

Scholten Japanese Art announced their gallery presentation, STERLING: 25 Years in New York, celebrating our ‘silver’ anniversary during Asia Week New York 2026. - As global interest in historical ...

TOKYO -- "If you were to ask me what I'm fond of, I would answer 'travel' right away." Such were the words of 20th century woodblock print artist Kawase Hasui, who captured everyday landscapes across ...

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Thanks to the world-famous work of artists such as Hokusai and Hiroshige, ukiyo-e woodblock prints are typically considered an art form distinctive to the Edo period (1603–1868) – the age of shoguns ...

This winter, the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo presents a landmark exhibition tracing the evolution of Japan’s landscape printmaking from the twilight of the Edo period (mid-1800s) to the dawn of ...

View Hasui Kawase’s 2,293 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available prints and multiples, works ...

Hasui Kawase was a Japanese artist known for his woodblock prints depicting landscapes and townscapes. He was a prominent figure in the shin-hanga movement. "In the case of printing we must interact ...

Japanese painter Hasui Kawase (1883-1957) was a prominent artist of the shin-hanga (new prints) style. After studying ukiyo-e (woodblock prints) and nihonga (Japanese-style painting) under Kiyokata ...