Onuma Park, Hokkaido, from the series "Collection of Scenic Views of Japan, Eastern Japan Edition" (Nihon fukei shu higashi Nihon hen, Hokkaido Onuma koen)
by Kawase Hasui
by Kawase Hasui
Onuma Park, Hokkaido is part of Kawase Hasui's 1934 series Collection of Scenic Views of Japan, Eastern Japan Edition (Nihon fukei shu higashi Nihon hen) and is held by the Art Institute of Chicago. The woodblock print depicts the volcanic landscape near Hakodate, where Onuma Quasi-National Park spreads around small islands at the foot of Komagatake, the conical mountain that dominates the region. Kawase Hasui composes the scene to emphasize a flat sheet of lake water in the foreground, with a low islet bearing pines and a few buildings, while the mountain rises behind under a graded sky. The contrast between still water and looming peak became one of Hasui's most recognizable formulas, allowing him to deploy the bokashi printing techniques perfected by Watanabe Shozaburo's workshop. As publisher of the shin-hanga, or new prints, movement, Watanabe Shozaburo coordinated the carvers and printers who translated Hasui's watercolor sketches into the layered woodblock image; their craftsmanship is evident in the delicate gradations of sky and lake. Onuma Park had been popularized in the early twentieth century as a scenic destination on the route to Hokkaido, and Kawase Hasui's print served both as an evocation of a specific place and as part of a publisher-driven project to map Japan in shin-hanga form. The Eastern Japan Edition set complemented the Kansai-focused series Hasui produced in parallel, together creating a regional inventory of modern Japanese landscape designed for collectors at home and abroad.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Onuma Park, Hokkaido, from the series "Collection of Scenic Views of Japan, Eastern Japan Edition" (Nihon fukei shu higashi Nihon hen, Hokkaido Onuma koen) was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in March 1934.
Yes — Onuma Park, Hokkaido, from the series "Collection of Scenic Views of Japan, Eastern Japan Edition" (Nihon fukei shu higashi Nihon hen, Hokkaido Onuma koen) is part of the Collection of Scenic Views of Japan, Eastern Japan Edition series by Kawase Hasui.
Onuma Park, Hokkaido, from the series "Collection of Scenic Views of Japan, Eastern Japan Edition" (Nihon fukei shu higashi Nihon hen, Hokkaido Onuma koen) uses Bokashi, on color woodblock print.
Onuma Park, Hokkaido, from the series "Collection of Scenic Views of Japan, Eastern Japan Edition" (Nihon fukei shu higashi Nihon hen, Hokkaido Onuma koen) depicts landscapes and famous places (meisho-e).
