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Dusk at Nenoyama (Nenoyama no yugure) by Kawase Hasui — Japanese Color woodblock print, 1955

Dusk at Nenoyama (Nenoyama no yugure)

by Kawase Hasui

Shin-hanga
Night Scenes
Date:
1955
Medium:
Color woodblock print
Format:
Oban
Edition:
Published by Watanabe Shozaburo

Description

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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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.