"The Chunum Temple, Mt. Chiri, Korea (Chôsen Chiizan Sen'in-ji), from the series Views of Korea, Continued (Zoku Chôsen fûkei)"

This print belongs to Hasui's Zoku Chōsen fūkei (Views of Korea, Continued), a series produced following his 1919 sketching journey to Korea during the Japanese colonial period. The subject is Hwaeomsa (rendered in the title as Chunum Temple or Sen'in-ji), a major Buddhist temple on the southern slopes of Jirisan (Mt. Chiri) in present-day South Jeolla Province. The mountain and temple complex, one of the largest in Korea, offered Hasui a landscape subject combining dense forest, mountain scenery, and traditional architecture outside the Japanese archipelago. The Korea series prints are less commonly encountered than his Japanese subjects and document a significant if historically complicated chapter in shin-hanga's engagement with the broader geography of the Japanese empire.