Inubo point

Inubosaki, on the eastern tip of the Chiba Peninsula, is among the first points of land to receive the Pacific sunrise, and its dark volcanic cliffs and white-painted lighthouse have figured in shin-hanga since the 1920s. Kasamatsu's print likely positions the lighthouse against breaking surf or the sweep of the open sea, with the horizon held high or low to emphasize the meeting of stone and water. Bokashi carries the gradation of sky and ocean, while a strong key-block outline defines the cliff edge and architectural mass. Coastal subjects were a recurring concern across the shin-hanga generation—Hasui, Yoshida, and Kasamatsu all worked the meisho-e tradition forward into modern marine imagery. The print belongs to a broader inventory of Japanese coastal landmarks documented through mokuhanga in the interwar and postwar decades, registering specific weather and time of day rather than generic scenery.