Amakusa

"Amakusa" (1937) by Kawase Hasui depicts a coastal village at dusk, with steep dark rooftops clustered behind a stone wall and a furrowed vegetable field in the foreground. Two figures, a woman carrying a child on her back and a second child beside her, walk along a path between the wall and the tilled rows. Beyond the rooftops, a tree-covered island sits in calm water beneath a pink and mauve sky, with distant mountains on the horizon.