Evening at the Kamo River in Kyoto (Kyôto Kamogawa no yûgure), from the series Selected Views of Japan (Nihon fûkei senshû)

From the series Selected Views of Japan (Nihon fūkei senshū), this print depicts the Kamo River as it moves through central Kyoto at dusk. The Kamo River is one of Kyoto's defining geographic features, flanked by the wooden dining terraces of Pontochō to the west and the old townscape of the Higashiyama district to the east. Hasui captures the river at a quiet evening hour — reed beds or low stone embankments defining the foreground, with willows or old machiya townhouses framing the middle distance. The evening light is rendered through graduated bokashi washes across multiple blocks, transitioning from warm sunset hues near the horizon to cooler blue-violet tones above. The Selected Views of Japan series gathered Hasui's travel sketches from across the archipelago into a cohesive meisho-e collection under Watanabe Shōzaburō's publishing program. The Kamo River scene demonstrates Hasui's use of water surfaces as a vehicle for reflected light — a compositional strategy he employed throughout his career to intensify the mood of transitional hours.