Arashiyama, Kyöto

This print, titled with the older romanization Kyöto, is likely an earlier or separately catalogued edition of Hasui's Arashiyama views, possibly distinguished by its publication date, publisher, or the format in which the title cartouche was rendered. Arashiyama and the Oi River valley were among the canonical meisho-e subjects of Kyoto, their visual identity inseparable from the Togetsukyo bridge and the wooded slopes of Arashiyama and Ogura-yama. Hasui's composition uses the bridge as a structural armature — its horizontal span dividing the sheet between the active foreground water and the quieter middle-distance hillside. The print reflects the shin-hanga movement's engagement with established pictorial sites while applying the naturalistic color printing and atmospheric light effects that distinguished the movement from the flat tonal areas of earlier ukiyo-e landscape.