Fuji from Narusawa village by Hasui Collage-Modern letting color and rhythm carry

letting color and rhythm carry the image

creating a sense of abundance and natural order

Energy radiates from the dominant arc at centre

Kobayashi Kyochika applies his kosen-ga technique — the fusion of traditional ukiyo-e composition with Western chiaroscuro — to render the fireworks as explosive blooms of light against a deep

Fuji from Narusawa village by Hasui Collage-Modern letting color and rhythm carryFuji 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