Girl on the shore - Fukuura

Fukuura sits on the Yokohama coast on Tokyo Bay, a setting that combines fishing-village atmosphere with proximity to the modern city. The composition merges figure study with coastal landscape and draws on both strands of Kasamatsu's training: the [bijin-ga](/glossary/bijin-ga) drawing skill he absorbed in Kaburagi Kiyokata's atelier, and the landscape interest that became his primary subject. The child would be cut on a key block with the careful contour drawing characteristic of Kiyokata's school, while the surrounding shore, sea, and sky would receive the [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) treatment that distinguishes Kasamatsu from his teacher. Children appear infrequently in his output, in which adult travelers or empty landscapes are the norm. The print belongs to a quieter register of post-war [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) in which everyday life, rather than grand scenery, supplies the subject, closer in spirit to Shinsui's domestic figures than to Hasui's ambitious landscape series.