Fuji from Narusawa village by Hasui Japanese Doudine's eye for balance between

Doudine's eye for balance between contemporary flatness and classical weight is what gives this work its particular authority

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

It is both decorative object and cultural document

A quiet authority runs through the image — unhurried

the Spree implied rather than laboured

Fuji from Narusawa village by Hasui Japanese Doudine's eye for balance betweenFuji 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