Yoshino Kumano National Park — 国立吉野熊野

Among the four Kawase Hasui compositions depicting Yoshino-Kumano National Park, this print likely focuses on one of the park's distinct landscape zones — the flowering cherry hillsides of Yoshino, the stone-paved Kumano Kodo pilgrimage routes through ancient cryptomeria forest, or the dramatic Pacific coastline near Nachi Falls. Hasui's treatment of forested mountain terrain characteristically uses overlapping planes of deep green and blue-gray, with tree forms rendered through careful color area separation rather than outline drawing. The Yoshino area, renowned since the Heian period for its mass plantings of yamazakura (mountain cherry), provided Hasui with an opportunity to deploy pale pink [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradations against darker hillside tones — a tonal challenge requiring fine control of dilution and pressure during printing. The four prints in this group likely represent different seasons or different parts of the extensive park rather than multiple views of a single scene.