Kawase Hasui — Autumn Forest Print: Japanese Woodcut Art

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Kawase Hasui — Autumn Forest Print: Japanese Woodcut ArtKawase Hasui (18831957) was a master of shin hanga, the revolutionary "new woodblock" movement that transformed Japanese printmaking in the 20th century. Hasui is celebrated for his luminous night scenesmoonlit temples, rain soaked streets, nocturnal water landscapeseach rendered with atmospheric depth and subtle color that evoke mood over mere representation. His works epitomize shin hanga's marriage of traditional ukiyo e technique with modernist

His Vertigo (1958) poster — a spiralling vortex of red and black containing two falling figures — reduces Hitchcock's complex psychological thriller to a single image of vertiginous dread

produced some of the most beautiful miniature paintings in the Persian tradition: jewel-bright birds in paradisiacal gardens

His actor prints and mythological subjects have the bold simplicity of the early tradition and a vigour that anticipates the later masters

best known today for a single extraordinary work: a triptych of three frogs

Available handframed in FSC-certified wood with optional float glass

the floral abstractions

A collector's piece for lovers of classic cinema and the golden age of Hollywood

His colourblock compositions — rigorous

Edward Penfield's High Adventure book cover is a study in modernist restraint: a single figure

influencing H

A sutran calligraphy is simultaneously a sacred object

one of the most awe-inspiring Romantic landscapes in British art

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