Hamaotsu Yacht Harbor

Hamaotsu Yacht Harbor presents the boat-filled harbor of Otsu city on the southern shore of Lake Biwa — Japan's largest lake and the historic waterway connecting Kyoto to the northern provinces. Hamaotsu's harbor, with its pleasure craft and fishing vessels, provided Asano with a subject somewhat different from his characteristic temple and shrine compositions — an image of contemporary leisure and the working waterfront of a major inland port. The masts and hulls of moored vessels created geometric vertical elements against the broad horizontal of the lake, Lake Biwa itself serving as backdrop.