Mother and Child

A mother cradles or attends to a child, the warmth of their physical proximity rendered in a composition that draws on the established shin-hanga interest in domestic figural subjects. Kasamatsu's mother-and-child prints sit within the broader trend of depicting Japanese women in traditional roles and domestic settings that characterized much of the shin-hanga movement's figural work. The image emphasizes tenderness over sentiment, finding in the specific postures of mother and child an image of fundamental human attachment.