Tutsa Marsh, Mutsu, from the series Souvenirs of Travel, First Series

The variant romanization Tutsa in this print's title reflects an older transcription convention and identifies the subject as Tsutanuma Marsh from Hasui's Tabi miyage dai isshū (Souvenirs of Travel, First Series), published by Watanabe Shōzaburō beginning in 1919. This series, comprising thirty-six prints issued across three installments, established the template for shin-hanga travel landscape series that Hasui and contemporaries would develop through the Taisho and early Showa periods. The marsh composition likely emphasizes the reflective pond surface set within the Aomori beech forest, organized around the interplay of vertical tree forms and horizontal water. The print's placement within the Tabi miyage series connects it to an editorial project that introduced regional Japanese landscapes—remote hot springs, mountain villages, coastal shrines—to urban audiences framed through the aesthetic sensibility of trained artists working within the traditional woodblock medium. Oban-format prints in this series are noted for their ambitious color range and careful atmospheric gradation.