75th Anniversary of the Meteorological Observatory — 中央気象台創立75年記念

A commemorative print issued for the 75th anniversary of Japan's Central Meteorological Observatory (中央気象台), founded in 1875 and celebrating its diamond jubilee in 1950. As an artist whose entire output centered on the observation of weather—rain, snow, fog, and moonlight across Japan's landscape—Hasui was a fitting choice to mark this occasion. The composition likely depicts the observatory's building in Tokyo or a landscape rich in atmospheric incident, rendered in his characteristic shin-hanga palette of layered blue-greys and soft white. Bokashi gradations in the sky would be especially apt for a meteorological institution, lending the print both technical elegance and symbolic resonance.