Inubo point

Inubosaki—Cape Inubo on the easternmost tip of the Boso Peninsula in Chiba Prefecture—is best known for its 1874 lighthouse and the cliffs where the Pacific meets a long stretch of open horizon. Kasamatsu's print likely organizes the view around the lighthouse silhouette or the cliff line, placing the sea as the dominant pictorial mass and reserving the keyblock for rock and architectural detail. Coastal compositions of this kind reward a printer's bokashi work: the sea is built up in two or three blue passages with horizontal gradations, the sky in a separate set of vertical blends, and the meeting line at the horizon carries the print's depth. Cape and lighthouse subjects entered the shin-hanga repertoire in the 1920s and 1930s as the genre opened beyond temple and hot-spring scenes; Hasui and Hiroshi Yoshida both produced lighthouse prints in this period. Kasamatsu's Boso coast views fit within his sustained engagement with the Pacific shoreline reachable from Tokyo by rail, a defined geography to which he returned across decades.