Girls on the shore, Fukuura

A genre scene set at Fukuura, a coastal area near Yokohama associated with summer recreation. The composition gathers several young figures at the water's edge, a subject Kasamatsu treated more than once. The print would deploy a flat horizon with [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradation across sea and sky, the children rendered with the rounded simplifications typical of his figurative work. Inheriting figurative conventions from his teacher Kaburagi Kiyokata, Kasamatsu redirected those conventions from the studio interiors and pleasure-quarter subjects of late nineteenth-century [bijin-ga](/glossary/bijin-ga) toward open-air settings. Coastal subjects allowed the [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) publisher to package summer atmosphere — light, water, leisure — for collectors who associated the medium with seasonal evocation. The Fukuura prints sit within Kasamatsu's broader output of figures placed in atmospheric landscape, a category that runs parallel to his snow and night scenes.