Doro Ningyö (Clay Doll)

This woodblock print depicting doro ningyö — painted clay folk dolls — shows Hasui working outside his signature landscape mode. Traditional Japanese clay dolls, such as those produced in Fushimi (Kyoto), Hakata (Fukuoka), or Tsuchiura (Ibaraki), are brightly painted with bold outlines and vivid mineral pigments, qualities that translate well into the multiple-block color printing of shin-hanga. The composition likely presents one or more figurines against a neutral or contextual ground, with careful attention to the painted surface details — robes, facial features, decorative motifs — rendered through fine key-block line work. Such prints served as cultural records of regional crafts alongside their function as decorative objects, reflecting the shin-hanga movement's broader interest in preserving and celebrating traditional Japanese material culture.