Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)

Kawase Hasui, the eldest son of a merchant family, whose given name was "Bunjiro", tried his hand at running the family business, but turned it over to his younger sister and entered the studio of Kiyokata at age 25. Kiyokata gave Hasui his artist's name in 1910. In 1916 he met the publisher Shozaburo Watanabe. In 1918 Hasui saw and was inspired by Ito Shinsui's "Eight Views of Lake Biwa" which were being shown at a Kyodokai exhibition. Hasui submitted sketches to Watanabe and so began the collaboration that started in 1918 and continued into the 1950s.

While the majority of his prints were published by Watanabe, Hasui also worked with Kawaguchi/Sakai between 1929 to 1932. This later venture was a result of the artists' need to raise extra funds for the construction of a new home he was building in Magome. Hasui moved to Magome in 1930 and began what he described as his most interesting artistic period. Over half of his more than 600 prints were published during the period between 1930 to 1944. In 1930, with the help of Watanabe, Hasui exhibited 92 prints in the landmark Toledo Museum of Art exhibition, which introduced his works to the West and led to his international recognition as a Japanese landscape print artist. Later, Hasui was recognized for his ability to depict snow scenes. Great Japanese scholars like the eminent Naruzaki Mureshige liked to describe Kawase Hasui as the "Artist of Snow". He became one of the best known artists of the New Print movement and was named a Living National Treasure in 1956.

The Works of Hasui: Kawase Hasui Woodblock Prints

• Hasui Landcape
• Hasui Snow
• Hasui Snow at Kiyomizu Temple
• Hasui Night scene at Miyajima
• Hasui Zojoji Temple
• Hasui Lake Chuzenji
• Hasui Ueno Toshogu Prints

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Irises   Futatsu Hall, Nikko   Starlit Night, Miyajima   Frosty Morning at Nagaoka, Izu   Snow at Zojo Temple, Tokyo   Rain at Omiya   Shichirigahama, Soshu   Winter Moon over Toyama Plain   Snow at the Silver Pavilion   Myohon Temple, Kamakura   Clearing after a Snowfall at the Asakusa Kannon Temple   Lake Hamana

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Artist Bio Index:

18th & 19th C. Artists:				Hiroshige Chikanobu Eisen Eizan Gakutei Hirosada Hiroshige II Hokusai Kunichika Kunisada Kuniyoshi Kyosai (Gyosai) Shunsho Toyokuni I Toyokuni III Yoshitoshi
20th C. Artists:				Bertha Lum Charles Bartlett Chiura Obata Clifton Karhu Cyrus Leroy Baldridge Elizabeth Keith Hajime Namiki Haku Maki Hashiguchi Goyo Helen Hyde Hiroshi Yoshida Ito Shinsui Joichi Hoshi Katsunori Hamanishi Kawase Hasui Kawase Hasui   (Posthumous) Kiyoshi Saito Koshiro Onchi Ohara Shoson   (Koson) Paul Jacoulet Ryohei Tanaka Sadao Watanabe Shigeki Kuroda Shinichi Nakazawa Shiro Kasamatsu Yamamoto Shoun Sugiura Tadashi Nakayama Takahashi Hiroaki   (Shotei) Toko Shinoda Tomoo Inagaki Toraji Ishikawa Torii Kotondo Toshi Yoshida Tsuchiya Koitsu Tsuruya Kokei Umetaro Azechi Unichi Hiratsuka Yoshitoshi Mori Yuji Hiratsuka
China Trade:				Auguste Borget Chinese School Edward Hildebrandt Thomas Allom William Alexander
Modern Originals:				Carol Jessen
Natural History:				J. James Audubon Mark Catesby John Gould
Antique Maps:				Conrad Lotter Gilles Robert Gerard de Jode Henricus Hondius Jan Huygen John Tallis Matthaeus Seutter Nicolas Sanson

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