Starlit Night - Miyajima Shrine — 星月夜（宮島）

This impression of Hasui's Miyajima starlit night composition belongs to a series of closely related printings distinguished by subtle variations in color depth, bokashi gradient, and impression quality. The subject — Itsukushima Shrine's torii gate and corridor under a star-filled sky — is rendered in the nocturnal palette characteristic of Hasui's night prints: graduated indigo washes for water and sky, warm lamp-light yellows for shrine lanterns, and the iconic vermilion of the torii. The reflection of the gate and shrine structures in the tidal water below creates a vertical symmetry that Hasui's printers achieved through carefully registered bokashi passes. As a kacho-e equivalent for architecture, the composition captures nature and sacred structure in precise atmospheric balance.