The Arts of Japan

Visions of Japan

Kawase Hasui's Masterpieces

Brown, Kendall H.Hotei Publishing · 2004

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Details

Title
Visions of Japan
Subtitle
Kawase Hasui's Masterpieces
Publication Date
2004
Language
English
Media
Print
Page Count
149
Format
Hardcover
ISBN 13
978-9074822800
Publisher
Hotei Publishing
Editor
Brown, Kendall H.

Blurb

Following on the success of the catalogue raisonné – Kawase Hasui: The Complete Woodblock Prints – published by Hotei Publishing in 2003, Visions of Japan: Kawase Hasui’s Masterpieces brings together in a single volume one hundred of the artist’s most celebrated prints. Fully illustrated, this publication includes annotated descriptions for each work, as well as two essays on Hasui’s life and work by Dr. Kendall H. Brown.

Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) is considered the foremost Japanese landscape print artist of the 20th century, and he is most closely associated with the pioneering Shin-hanga (New Prints) publisher Watanabe Shōzaburō (1885-1962). Hasui’s work became hugely popular, not only in his native Japan but also in the West, especially in the United States. His valuable contribution to the woodblock print medium was acknowledged in 1956, a year before his death, when he was honoured with the distinction of ‘Living National Treasure’.

Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgements
    6
  • Preface
    7
  • A place for poetry: Shin-hanga landscape in modern Japan
    9
  • Poet of place: the life and art of Kawase Hasui
    19
  • Watanabe copyright ownership seals
    32
  • Map of Japan
    35
  • Editorial note to the places
    36
  • Plates
    37
  • Captions to the plates, with annotations
    137
  • Selected bibliography
    149