Kegon Falls, Nikko (Nikko Kegon no taki)

Kegon Falls at Nikko (1927 version), depicts the great waterfall of Kegon-no-taki — where the outflow of Lake Chuzenji drops nearly 100 meters in a single continuous cascade — in what is likely the full summer flow when the falls run at maximum volume, their white curtain of water visible against the dark basalt gorge walls. The 1927 date places this in Hasui's active Nikko documentation phase, when the region's combination of mountain landscape, ancient shrines, and dramatic natural features occupied him across multiple compositions. The Kegon Falls subject offered Hasui a rare opportunity for a pure vertical composition dominated by falling water.