Winter Moon over Toyama Plain

Description

Japanese woodblock artists have always excelled at displaying night scenes. This might be even more true for the Shin-Hanga artists in the first half of the 20th century, and among those especially for Kawase Hasui, one of its most famous representatives. Here the full winter moon shines through a row of bare trees in a winter landscape that is desolate and dark, yet brightened up and beautiful at the same time. The same scene was depicted by Kawase Hasui in a pre-earthquake design from 1920, Toyama Plain.