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
The fourth print in Hasui's Chichibu-Tama National Park series completes a group issued to commemorate the park's designation and promote domestic tourism in postwar Japan. Hasui likely visited the region on one of his sketching expeditions, producing preparatory drawings that were then translated into block designs. This design may emphasize the Tama River in flood or low water, or a high-altitude lookout point with distant ridgelines. Hasui's compositional economy — spare foreground, controlled horizon placement, restrained color palette — reflects his study under Kaburagi Kiyokata and his assimilation of earlier Hiroshige landscape conventions within a twentieth-century printmaking idiom.
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