Born in 1883 in Tokyo, this great master of the twentieth-century Shin-hanga school spent most of his adult life as a woodblock printmaker. Hasui was one of the first artists to choose to record the unknown rural places and urban corners that he found so captivating. His talent for capturing a mood, illustrating a scene, and drawing the viewer into the image makes for some of the most captivating Japanese woodblocks ever created. These prints are posthumous editions printed in the Hesei period (beginning 1989) from the original blocks.