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Onuma Park in Hokkaido by Kawase Hasui — Japanese Woodblock print

Onuma Park in Hokkaido

by Kawase Hasui

Medium:
Woodblock print
Image courtesy of
Japanese Art Open Database

Description

One of Hasui's Onuma Park compositions depicting the celebrated lake-and-volcano landscape of Hokkaido's Oshima Subprefecture. Lake Onuma, formed by lava flows from Mount Komagatake, is dotted with more than one hundred small islets, and this design exploits the geometry of water, land, and volcanic silhouette to create a structured yet atmospheric meisho-e. The calm lake surface serves as a mirror for sky tone and mountain shape, a compositional device Hasui employed throughout his career in landscapes from Matsushima to Nikkō. Printed on high-quality washi using water-based pigments, the graded sky and reflective water demonstrate the technical refinement of Watanabe Shōzaburō's publishing operation and the collaborative craft that defined shin-hanga production.

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Onuma Park in Hokkaido was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水).

Onuma Park in Hokkaido depicts gardens.