Evening Snow at the Golden Pavilion (Kinkaku-ji no bosetsu), Shôwa period, circa 1935

Produced circa 1935 during the Shôwa period, this print depicts Kinkaku-ji, the Gold Pavilion in Kyoto, under evening snowfall. The three-tiered pavilion, set within its garden on the edge of Kyôkochi (Mirror Pond), is a subject that demanded precision: its gilded upper stories and distinctive architectural silhouette must register legibly even under the muted palette of a snow scene. Hasui uses the white expanse of snow-covered garden and frozen pond surface to isolate the structure, while graduated bokashi transitions the sky from warm residual light near the horizon to darker blue above. The 1935 dating places this work in Hasui's mature period, when his technical command of complex multi-block printing allowed for sophisticated rendering of architectural detail within atmospheric landscape compositions.