Kawase Hasui 40 Prints

Hasui Kawase (川瀬 巴水, May 18, 1883 - November 7, 1957) was a Japanese artist that took up ukiyo-e printing as it disappeared as a commercial printing form and instead became an art for its own sake, so to say.

In Hokusai and Hiroshige´s time, first half of the 1800s, ukiyo-e prints were cheap - around the price of a bowl of soup -and filled the market which would later develop in postcards and magazines.

Hasui designed traditional prints in a western style, mostly landscapes, o…