Collotype picture postcard 〈Five Seasonal Themes Spring Urara Mount Atago in Spring〉Hasui Kawase

Size: 14.0 x 9.0cm Printing method: Glass plate (collotype multicolor printing)
Work Information: Hasui Kawase 1921 (The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo)

Hasui Kawase
Born in Tokyo from 1883 to 1957. Learned Japanese painting from Kiyokata Kaburagi. Under the influence of Ito Shinsui's "Omi Hakkei", he worked on printmaking, and under the publisher Shozaburo Watanabe, he pursued "new prints" using traditional ukiyo-e techniques and created landscape prints rich in travel sentiment. His representative works are Twenty Views of Tokyo and Twelve Themes of Tokyo.

○ What is Collotype?
Offset printing, a common printing method, expresses colors and shades with a density of small halftone dots, but collotype expresses continuous gradation, so it expresses fine details that are closer to the real thing than photographs. .