Tide

A second 'Tide' design from Kasamatsu most likely treats the same subject from a different vantage or under different light — perhaps a receding tide on flat sand, or surf at twilight rather than at full day. Pairs and small series of nominally identical titles appear elsewhere in his late work, where he revisited a motif to test variations in palette and registration. The print probably sustains the spare composition of its companion: a low horizon, broad bands of water and sand, and a sky graded by bokashi. Overprinting in muted blues and grays would carry the bulk of the image, with sumi reserved for darker passages of wet sand or distant rocks. Such reductive seascapes mark the sosaku-hanga end of Kasamatsu's range, distinct from the populated, weather-driven shin-hanga views he produced earlier with Watanabe, and demonstrate his continued engagement with mokuhanga as a medium for atmosphere rather than narrative through the postwar decades.