Fuji from Narusawa village by Hasui Collage-Modern water-weed forms

water-weed forms

Energy radiates from the dominant arc at centre

The matte paper surface renders every soft transition and colour layer with the depth and warmth the original commands

The composition is dense yet ordered

where towering waves crash against rocky cliffs while Mount Fuji rises serenely in the distance

Fuji from Narusawa village by Hasui Collage-Modern water-weed formsFuji from Narusawa Village presents Kawase Hasui's Mount Fuji at a considered remove not the mountain as monument but as presiding presence in a landscape that has its own foreground life. Village rooftops and winter trees occupy the lower register, establishing human scale before the eye travels to the great cone rising clean against a pale sky. The tonal handling is characteristic of Hasui's mature shin hanga work: gradations achieved through