A small collection, slowly gathered — new prints, the artists behind them, and notes from along the way. It began with a single print of the old road to Nikkō, and the journey hasn't stopped since.
Where it began
The first piece I ever brought home was a shin hanga landscape titled Nikkō Dōchū — "The Nikkō Highway." I didn't know it yet, but buying that print was the start of something much longer.
This site is where I keep that journey: the prints themselves, the artists who made them — Hasui, Yoshida, Hiroshi, and the wider circle of the early twentieth-century shin hanga revival — and the galleries, dealers, and auctions where each piece was found. It's part archive, part travel log, and very much still in motion.
About this collectionFeatured Artist
Tokyo · Shin Hanga landscape master · 11 prints in this collection
Hasui's quiet, atmospheric landscapes — rendered in the soft gradations made possible by Watanabe Shōzaburō's studio — are the backbone of this collection. His Nikkō Dōchū remains the touchstone piece: everything else has, in some way, followed from it.
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