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An untitled Hasui print from the mature period of his career — roughly the 1930s through the 1950s — could represent any of the landscape types he revisited across multiple series: a rain scene with figures under umbrellas on a wet stone street, a temple precinct in evening light, a coastal scene with pine trees silhouetted against a colorful sky, or a rural farmhouse in autumn foliage. Hasui's late work is characterized by continued technical refinement in collaboration with the Watanabe publishing house, with increasingly complex bokashi gradations and layered color sequences. His late landscapes convey a quiet, meditative quality consistent with his stated intention to capture the transient moods of specific places and seasons rather than to document topographic information as an end in itself.