View from Hill
by Kawase Hasui
- Date:
- 1926
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Description
View from Hill — a generic title suggesting a panoramic vantage from an unnamed elevation — captures the characteristic landscape of a 1926 location seen from a hillside viewpoint, the town, valley, or coast below rendered in Hasui's standard horizontal composition. The Landscapes and Bokashi tags indicate a straightforward landscape view with atmospheric gradation in the sky. Without a specific location name, the print likely served as a broadly representative rural Japan view rather than a documented site.
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Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
View from Hill was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in 1926.
View from Hill uses Bokashi, on woodblock print.
View from Hill was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1926).
View from Hill depicts landscapes.