Kawase Hasui Japanese Woodblock Moonlit & Snow Prints

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Santa Claus in Snow Garden by Kawase Hasui 9" by 8 3/5" SHN500 $375

Harbor at Night by Kawase Hasui 15 5/8" by 10 1/2" SHN502 $375	Rain at Shuzenji Spa by Kawase Hasui 15 5/8" by 10 1/2" SHN501 $375

Mt. Fuji from Tagonoura Bridge by Kawase Hasui 15 7/8" by 10 3/4" SHN520 $375	Amakusa Honryo by Kawase Hasui 16 1/8" by 11" SHN521 $375


Snowfall at Kiyomizu Temple, Kyoto by Kawase Hasui 15 7/8" by 10 3/4" SHN522 SOLD	Bishu Handa Shin Kawabata by Kawase Hasui 15 5/8" by 10 3/8" SHN523 $375

Cherry tree at Koganei Cherry at Night, Koganei by Kawase Hasui
14 1/4" by 10 3/4 inches
SHN524 $375

Lake Kizaki in Rain
10 3/8" by 15 1/2"
SHN408 $345


Spring Night at Inokashira 10 1/2" x 15 1/2" SHN401A $365	Nikko Kaido Line 10 3/8" by 15 1/2" SHN407 $345

Autumn at Saruiwa, Shiobara by Hasui 10 1/2" by 15 5/8" SHN512 $375	Snow in Miyajima 11" x 16 1/2" SHN402A $365


Takegawa River at Dawn by Takashi 1932 printed after WW2, later copy but not recent 15 3/8" by 11 1/8" SHN514 $345	Nishiizukisho, Mt Fuji 11 1/8" x 16 3/4" SHN400A $375


Komagata-gashi Riverbank 15 1/2" x 10 1/2" SHN405A $345	Snow at Shinkyo Bridge, Nikko 16 3/8" x 11 1/8" SHN404A SOLD


Mt Fuji from Hagoromo Beach by Koichi Okada Cut out on right is for printing alignment and not a defect 16 1/8" by 11/18" SHN513 $275	Evening at Kintaikyo Bridge, in Spring 10 1/2 inches by 15 1/4 inches SHN205 $375

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Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) is one the great masters of the Shin Hanga movement. Shortly before his death, the Japanese government declared his art work a Living National Treasure, the highest honor bestowed in modern-day Japan.

Shin Hanga, or “new prints” incorporated Western tastes and eye for beauty into traditional Japanese art. Their popularity is largely due to the efforts of Shozaburo Watanabe, a keen businessman who gathered young artists around him to learn the new European concepts of perspective, light and shade. Today, Shoichiro Wantanbe continues the long family tradition, and still issues Hasui prints from the original woodblock designs, and Panteek's prints as shown on this page come from directly from him. We rarely sell prints from the life time editions are they are now prohibitively expensive, alas.

Hasui was born in Tokyo and studied both Japanese and European painting techniques as a child. His interest in Japanese woodblock prints developed during his apprenticeship at the age of 27 with the famous Japanese painter, Kaburaki Kiyokata, and his friendship with another apprentice, Ito Shinsui.

The master of landscape prints, Hasui’s intense blue night scenes and the designs showing snowfall or rain are hugely popular with their vivid colouring and entrancing natural beauty. The artist's landscape prints hardly ever show people, partially because he was nearsighted and needed to wear thick glasses to see details. People also would not stand still long enough for him to work. He traveled the length and breadth of Japan to create his art, sketching out a scenic landscape before him then adding color later. On his return visits to Tokyo, Watanabe's wood carvers would make the blocks for printing.