Spring Moon, Ninomiya Beach (Haru no tsuki (Ninomiya kaigan))

Spring Moon, Ninomiya Beach (March 1932) depicts the Pacific shoreline at Ninomiya in Kanagawa Prefecture under the hazy spring moon — the oborozuki of traditional Japanese poetic imagery, its light diffused by seasonal atmospheric moisture. Ninomiya beach, on Sagami Bay southwest of Tokyo, offered Hasui a wide sandy shoreline where moonlight could be traced across both the water's surface and the pale sand. The March publication date aligns with the late winter to early spring transition when the oborozuki phenomenon is most characteristically observed. A second version (January 1932) also exists in this dataset, showing Hasui's sustained exploration of this single coastal subject.