Hasui Kawase1883~1957 川瀬巴水

Kawase Hasui (May 18, 1883 – November 27, 1957) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist and woodblock printmaker active during the Taisho and Showa periods, whose real name was Kawase Bunjiro. Together with publisher Watanabe Shozaburo, he led the shin-hanga (new prints) movement, reviving Japan’s declining traditional woodblock print art. In 1918, inspired by his fellow pupil Ito Shinsui’s woodblock print “Eight Views of Omi,” he began creating woodblock prints, debuting with the well-received “Shiobara Triptych.” Known as the “poet of travel,” “the traveling printmaker,” and “the Hiroshige of the Showa era,” he created over 600 landscape prints during his lifetime. Together with Hokusai and Hiroshige, he is counted among the “3H” landscape masters.