Bibliograph

Water and shadow, Kawase Hasui and Japanese landscape prints, edited by Kendall H. Brown ; With essays by Kendall H. Brown, James King, Koyama Shūko, Shimizu Hisao, and Miya Elise Mizuta

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Water and shadow, Kawase Hasui and Japanese landscape prints, edited by Kendall H. Brown ; With essays by Kendall H. Brown, James King, Koyama Shūko, Shimizu Hisao, and Miya Elise Mizuta

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-201) and index

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Water and shadow

Nature of contents

bibliographycatalogs

Oclc number

900332490

Responsibility statement

edited by Kendall H. Brown ; With essays by Kendall H. Brown, James King, Koyama Shūko, Shimizu Hisao, and Miya Elise Mizuta

Sub title

Kawase Hasui and Japanese landscape prints

Summary

Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) was one of the leading advocates of the shin hanga (new prints) movement in Japan. Water and Shadow: Kawase Hasui and Japanese Landscape Prints is the first publication devoted to prints from Hasui's earliest and most creative period of woodblock print design, which lasted from 1918 through the Great Earthquake of 1923, when many of his early prints were destroyed. These works illustrate Japan's landscape, the beauty of urban spaces, and modern life in Japan. Through these tranquil, dreamlike works, the publication explores the themes of nostalgia and longing the search for individual and national identity in Japan during the early Taish period (1912-1926), an era of rapid social and cultural change during Japan's modernization. -- Amazon.com

Table Of Contents

Preface: On Collecting Hasui / René and Carolyn Balcer -- Acknowledgments / Kendall H. Brown -- Introduction: Hasui as Painter, Printmaker, and Poet of Place / Kendall H. Brown -- The Publisher Watanabe Shōzaburō and the Birth of Shin-hanga / Shimizu Hisao -- Resounding Tones: Hasui and the Japanese Landscape Print Tradition / James King -- Kawase Hasui's Travels and Travel Scenes: An Investigation from the Viewpoint of Taishō-Era Tourism / Koyama Shūko -- Architectural Portraiture: Pagodas and Illuminated Snowscapes in Kawase Hasui's Tokyo -- Miya Elise Mizuta -- Plates. Kawase Hasui, Pre-Earthquake Prints, 1918-23 -- Catalogue -- Biographical Timeline: The Life and Work of Kawase Hasui / Shimizu Hisao

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