Fuji from Narusawa village by Hasui Japanese A quiet authority runs through

A quiet authority runs through the image — unhurried

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

colour boundaries

Doudine balances bold colour fields with fine decorative detail

It is both decorative object and cultural document

Fuji from Narusawa village by Hasui Japanese A quiet authority runs throughFuji 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