Kegon Falls, Nikko (Nikko Kegon-no-taki)

Kegon Falls at Nikko (undated version), depicting Japan's most celebrated waterfall — the Kegon-no-taki, where Lake Chuzenji's outflow plunges 97 meters over a sheer basalt face into the gorge below — in what is likely a summer or autumn composition emphasizing the falls' tremendous volume and the mist rising from the deep pool at its base. Kegon Falls has been one of Japan's most visited natural sites since the Meiji period, its accessibility from Tokyo via the Nikko railway making it a destination for the emerging tourism industry. Hasui's undated treatment focuses on the dramatic vertical drop and the surrounding wooded gorge walls.