Hasui Kawase (1883-1957)

I do love the rain and the falling snowflakes so many times present in Hasui Kawase’s woodblock prints; engraver, printer, watercolourist and a Japanese ‘national living treasure’, following a particular technique, the woodcut printing with water inks (moku hanga), a technique dating back from the beginning of the 17th century, during the rise of the Edo period.