Shikotsu Toya National Park — 支笏洞爺国立公園

This print depicting Shikotsu-Toya National Park in Hokkaido represents one of Hasui's northern landscape studies. The park, designated in 1949, encompasses the volcanic landscapes around Lakes Shikotsu and Toya as well as the Noboribetsu hot spring district. Hasui may have designed this composition in connection with tourism promotion or as part of a landscape series celebrating Japan's national parks. The Hokkaido terrain — volcanic cones, coniferous forests, and cold clear lakes — offered compositional elements quite different from his Kanto and Kinki subjects. The print likely foregrounds the still lake surface with a mountain reflection, a device Hasui refined across dozens of lake and river compositions throughout his career.