Jun 27
This exceptionally tranquil, compositionally minimalist, and atmospherically expansive horizontal woodblock print is a celebrated landscape masterpiece by the renowned Shin-hanga (New Print) and Sōsaku-hanga (Creative Print) artist Shiro Kasamatsu (1898–1991). Titled "Scale Clouds" (Urokogumo), this magnificent design stands as a brilliant testament to mid-20th-century Japanese graphic art, shifting away from the dense urban theatricality of older traditions to capture a quiet, deeply poetic moment of rural labor. The artwork orchestrates a masterfully subtle palette of earthy moss-greens, warm straw-yellows, soft horizon ambers, and a vast, light-blue sky to crystallize the serene, rhythmic harmony between humanity and nature.
