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This is a mokuhanga print of a a frozen waterfall, called Hossawa Falls. by Jason Fujiwara — Japanese woodblock print

This is a mokuhanga print of a a frozen waterfall, called Hossawa Falls.

by Jason Fujiwara

Description

Hossawa Falls in Hinohara village, western Tokyo, is one of the few cataracts in the Kantō region that freezes solidly in mid-winter. Fujiwara's mokuhanga depicts the falls during this dormant phase, when the descending water has crystallized into a stationary column of ice flanked by snow-laden rock and vegetation. The subject sits within the meisho-e tradition of named landscape views while drawing on the winter-scene lineage running from Hiroshige's snowscapes through the shin-hanga generation. Rendering frozen water against surrounding stone and atmospheric haze suits mokuhanga's capacity for layered bokashi gradations and the cool palette achievable with water-based mineral pigments brushed on washi and impressed by baren. The print fits Fujiwara's documentary practice of photographing locations during travels through Japan, then translating those observations into hand-printed images that function as a visual diary. Hossawa lies within a day's reach of Tokyo, making it a plausible site for the direct field observation that anchors his broader body of landscape work.

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