Fuji from Narusawa village by Hasui Japanese The Barbican's angular towers and

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

Painted years before abstraction had a name

this work rewards close inspection — the razor-sharp disc edges and subtle tonal gradients across each ring reproduce with exceptional clarity

the Spree implied rather than laboured

Fuji from Narusawa village by Hasui Japanese The Barbican's angular towers andFuji 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