This is a first test post for ART
The painting is from the Japanese master woodprint maker Hasui Kawase (1883-1957), who was a prominent designer of the “new prints movement”, whose artists depicted traditional subjects with a style influenced by Western art.
Zōjō-ji in Shiba, 1925. From the series Twenty Views of Tōkyō.
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Hasui designed almost one thousand woodblock prints over a career that spanned nearly forty years. Towards the end of his life the government recognized him as a Living National Treasure for his contribution to Japanese culture.
Living National Treasure (Ningen Kokuhō) is a Japanese popular term for those individuals certified as Preservers of Important Intangible Cultural Properties by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology as based on Japan’s Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties
(informaton via Wikipedia)
This makes the currently living 111 people, who have received the honor also livng #CulturalHeritage.
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