Untitled

This untitled Hasui print likely belongs to one of the several named landscape series published by Watanabe Shozaburo across Hasui's career, among them Nihon fukei senshu (Selected Views of Japan), Tabi miyage (Travel Souvenirs), or one of the regional series documenting specific prefectures and landscapes. Hasui traveled extensively throughout Japan to sketch from observed locations, and each print in these series traces to a specific site he visited, even when titles were later lost or not recorded in surviving documentation. The print's technical production would have followed the Watanabe workshop's exacting standards: a key block carrying the primary outline registered with color blocks, printed on dampened washi to ensure even ink absorption, and checked against a reference proof at each successive impression stage.