Dusk at Nenoyama (Nenoyama no yugure)
by Kawase Hasui
- Date:
- 1955
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
by Kawase Hasui
Night views with moonlight and lantern effects carry a 20–30% premium over comparable daytime scenes. The dramatic tonal contrasts required for nocturnal subjects make impression quality especially important — fine examples from pre-war printings show a depth of color that later editions rarely match. Prints with well-preserved black areas and accurate moonlight bokashi command the highest prices. Postwar lifetime editions (1946–1957) bearing the small 6mm J-seal represent authentic lifetime impressions but from the artist's final decade.
Dusk at Nenoyama, published in 1955, depicts the Nenoyama locality — the "rat mountain" or "child mountain" — likely in the Chiba or Tokyo metropolitan fringe where topographic names with zodiac associations were common in Edo-period mapping — at the yu hour when day gives way to evening. The 1955 date makes this among Hasui's penultimate-year productions, his dusk subjects by this period carrying a particular elegiac quality: the light failing, the landscape moving toward darkness, the atmospheric observation of more than three decades distilled into a composition of transitional light.
Woodblock print
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Color woodblock print; oban
![Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)" by Kawase Hasui](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d0960668-1e73-339a-b182-fb995a54bff0/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
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Color woodblock print; oban
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Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Dusk at Nenoyama (Nenoyama no yugure) was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in 1955.
Dusk at Nenoyama (Nenoyama no yugure) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1955).
Dusk at Nenoyama (Nenoyama no yugure) depicts night scenes.
