Sunset at Nenoyama

A second composition or edition in Hasui's Nenoyama sunset series, this print revisits the hillside location in the Nishi-Oi area of Tokyo associated with the Ōtori Shrine precincts. Hasui's practice of producing multiple prints of the same location at the same time of day reflects both the publisher's commercial interest in popular subjects and the artist's formal interest in refining compositional solutions. This variant may adjust the foreground framing — shifting the angle of tree trunks, the placement of a stone path, or the positioning of figures — while retaining the characteristic warm evening sky. The bokashi gradation across the sky plane would require the printer to shade the dampened washi from a concentrated warm tone at the horizon through progressively cooler tones toward the top edge, a technically demanding passage that defined the quality of shin-hanga sunset prints.