Kawase Hasui · 1930
Magome
Posters from $15 · Canvas from $39
An evening lantern-lit stretch of the old Magome post-road, mountains receding into mist — Hasui at his most travel-poster perfect.
Up to 30 × 36 in · portrait
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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The story of Magome
Kawase Hasui's 1930 woodblock view of Magome, one of the old post-stations on the Nakasendō highway that linked Edo and Kyoto. A full yellow moon rises behind a single tall pine and a thatched house, the field below striped by the long rows of a tea plantation. One of the quietest of Hasui's landscapes and a perfect example of shin-hanga's atmospheric mastery.
Kawase Hasui
Hasui Kawase was a Japanese artist who was one of 20th century Japan's most important and prolific printmakers. He was a prominent designer of the shin-hanga movement, whose artists depicted traditional subjects with a style influenced by yōga . Like many earlier ukiyo-e prints, Hasui's works were commonly landscapes, but displayed atmospheric effects and natural lighting.
All Kawase Hasui prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
