Sentier de Printemps (Spring Path) evokes movement through a seasonal landscape rendered in Hasegawa's characteristic synthesis of calligraphic gestural marks and aquatint atmospheric fields. Spring, in both Japanese and French artistic traditions, carries associations of renewal and tentative emergence—qualities Hasegawa could encode in the delicate variation between fine needle-drawn lines and the soft tonal transitions of lightly bitten aquatint. The path as compositional device implies directionality, which Hasegawa may have introduced through diagonal mark sequences or graduated tonal zones that guide the eye across the plate. Color in this etching likely employs the greens, pale yellows, and soft pinks associated with spring, printed in successive passes to build chromatic depth. The title's language—French rather than Japanese—places this among the works where Hasegawa engaged directly with European landscape tradition, filtering it through the gestural economy of ink-brush practice.
Sentier de Printemps was created by Shoichi Hasegawa (長谷川潔一).
Sentier de Printemps uses Etching, on etching.
Sentier de Printemps depicts calligraphy and abstract.
