Kawase Hasui

Kawase Hasui Biography.

       Although Hasui is not well known in Japan, he is famous abroad. Hokusai, Hiroshige and Hasui are the three greatest woodblock print artists of Japan ..." (Narazaki Muneshige in the 1950s) 

   Kawase Hasui is one the great masters of the Shin Hanga movement. Shortly before his death, his art work was declared a Living National Treasure by the Japanese government.

Kawase Hasui

 Kawase Hasui

 Kawase Hasui

 

 Kawase Hasui

 Kawase Hasui

 Kawase Hasui

 Kawase Hasui

 

 Kawase Hasui

Kawase Hasui

Kawase Hasui

Kawase Hasui

Woodblock prints by Kawase Hasui