Nagare Pleasure Quarter, Kanazawa (Kanazawa Nagare no kuruwa), from the series Souvenirs of Travel, First Series (Tabi miyage dai isshū)

This print features the Nagare Pleasure Quarter, an entertainment district in Kanazawa, a city in central Japan. About the design, Kawase Hasui said: “Someone once said that Kanazawa is the 'Kyoto of the North.’ In that sense I truly believe that Kanazawa has a good feel about it. I depicted the Asano River and the Ume Bridge enveloped in a heavy mist on a morning in early autumn. It was difficult technically to convey the mood of the row of pines and the distant wood, as well as the area where the mist drifts down towards the riverbank.”