Selected Views of the Tokaido Lake Art Print by Hasui Size:L - 70 x 100.0cm This Roma travel poster distils

This Roma travel poster distils the eternal city into confident graphic form

surfaces accumulate meaning

and the delicate lantern light with the fidelity and line precision his woodblock mastery requires

The horizontal sweep of the composition — sky

Selected Views of the Tokaido Lake Art Print by Hasui Size:L - 70 x 100.0cm This Roma travel poster distilsSelected Views of the Tokaido Lake by Hasui Kawase exemplifies the serene power of the shin hanga movement at its most assured. Hasui frames the scene with characteristic economy still water, a distant treeline, sky rendered in gradated wash drawing the viewer into a moment of complete quietude. The composition belongs to a long tradition of Japanese landscape printmaking, yet Hasui's sensitivity to light and atmosphere gives it an immediacy that