Chichibu Tama National Park — 秩父多摩国立公園
by Kawase Hasui
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
- Image courtesy of
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
A landscape print from Hasui's Chichibu-Tama National Park series, depicting one of the park's signature scenes — likely the Tama River corridor, rocky peaks of the Oku-Chichibu range, or autumn-colored slopes near Mitake or Okutama. Hasui applied his characteristic tight compositional framing, using a foreground element such as cedar forest or riverbank rocks to establish recession toward a luminous sky. The print exemplifies the [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) approach in which the artist supplied the design while specialist carvers and printers executed the block cutting and overprinting, enabling fine gradations of tone across multiple color impressions on [hosho](/glossary/hosho)-quality [washi](/glossary/washi).
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