Fuji from Narusawa village by Hasui Japanese Doudine balances bold colour fields

Doudine balances bold colour fields with fine decorative detail

Painted years before abstraction had a name

true colour — exactly what this style of illustration needs

fiery oranges

Fuji from Narusawa village by Hasui Japanese Doudine balances bold colour fieldsFuji 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