Kamezaki, Bishu near Nagoya

Coastal subject set in Kamezaki, the harbour town on the Chita Peninsula in former Bishu (Owari Province), south of Nagoya. The medium recorded here is etching rather than the mokuhanga for which Hasui is principally known. While his career was almost entirely defined by woodblock prints produced through Watanabe Shozaburo, this attribution may indicate a copperplate impression — an unusual departure from his habitual practice — or a related work in another medium. The likely subject is the working waterfront at Kamezaki, with fishing boats moored along the inlet, low warehouses, and the wooded headlands of Ise Bay receding into haze. Compositionally the harbour view sits within Hasui's wider preoccupation with regional ports and quiet inlets, a thread running from his early Tokyo waterfront views through later prints of the Inland Sea and Sanin Coast. Whether pulled from copperplate or block, the visual language is recognisably his — a single architectural or maritime anchor, atmospheric recession through tonal gradation, and small human figures providing scale rather than narrative.