Mount Fuji from Lake Yamanaka by Takahashi Shōtei Size:S - 29.7 x 42cm (A3) grid-like pictorial space where colour

grid-like pictorial space where colour and line share equal authority

ensuring the illustration's graphic energy translates fully from screen to wall

each element of posture and palette contributing to a mood that feels both contemporary and timeless

Nigatsudo Temple rises quietly against a moody sky in this atmospheric shin-hanga composition by Hasui Kawase

this portrait by Mucha transcended its commercial brief to become one of the most recognisable images of the Art Nouveau era

Mount Fuji from Lake Yamanaka by Takahashi Shōtei Size:S - 29.7 x 42cm (A3) grid-like pictorial space where colourTakahashi Shtei's woodblock print of Mount Fuji as seen from Lake Yamanaka is a masterwork of the shin hanga movement. The composition places the lake's calm, reflective surface in the foreground, leading the eye upward to Fuji's snow capped peak. Shtei's handling of light is characteristic a soft, diffused atmosphere suggests an early morning hour, while the delicate gradations of the sky echo the restrained palette of traditional Japanese landscape