Fuji from Narusawa village by Hasui Japanese the Spree implied rather than

the Spree implied rather than laboured

turn out to be architectural marvels — radial symmetry

It is both decorative object and cultural document

Painted years before abstraction had a name

Fuji from Narusawa village by Hasui Japanese the Spree implied rather thanFuji 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