"Suma Beach at Night"
Woodblock print. Sheet size 37.9 x 24.5 cm. Frame 33 x 46 cm.
Darkened.
Arai Yoshimune was a Japanese artist associated with the shin-hanga ("New Prints") art movement in Japan during the early 20th century. This movement was influenced by European Impressionism and its imagery focused on landscapes, women, and nature. In the 1920s, the publisher Hasegawa commissioned a small group of artists to create woodblock prints for a series entitled "Hasegawa's Night Scenes", of which there were a total of 21 prints by 6 artists.
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