Kawase Hasui

1883-1957

New print artist. Born as the eldest son of a merchant of threadwork, his uncle was the playwright Kanagaki Roubun. He was a student of Kaburaki Kiyokata and received the name "Tomoe" at that time. He later became acquainted with Shozaburo Watanabe, and also became interested in woodblock prints after seeing "Eight Views of Omi" by Shinsui Ito, a fellow student of Kaburaki Kiyokata. In 1918, he published the Shiobara Trilogy from the Watanabe Print Shop, and thereafter published many landscape prints throughout his life. He became a representative artist of the "new print" style.