Fuji from Narusawa village by Hasui Japanese fiery oranges

fiery oranges

Doudine balances bold colour fields with fine decorative detail

this work rewards close inspection — the razor-sharp disc edges and subtle tonal gradients across each ring reproduce with exceptional clarity

It is both decorative object and cultural document

the Spree implied rather than laboured

Fuji from Narusawa village by Hasui Japanese fiery orangesFuji from Narusawa Village presents Kawase Hasui's Mount Fuji at a considered remove not the mountain as monument but as presiding presence in a landscape that has its own foreground life. Village rooftops and winter trees occupy the lower register, establishing human scale before the eye travels to the great cone rising clean against a pale sky. The tonal handling is characteristic of Hasui's mature shin hanga work: gradations achieved through