Fuji from Narusawa village by Hasui Japanese It is both decorative object

It is both decorative object and cultural document

A quiet authority runs through the image — unhurried

The Barbican's angular towers and interconnected walkways are distilled into clean geometric forms — strong lines

Doudine balances bold colour fields with fine decorative detail

Fuji from Narusawa village by Hasui Japanese It is both decorative objectFuji 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