Spring Evening at Otemon Gate by Hasui Kawase, 1952 cambridge Sam Hughes

Sam Hughes

It includes the vicinity of All Saints Church—one of the borough’s oldest sites—as well as the riverside paths leading toward Canbury Gardens and the Royal Borough’s original town hall

Michael the Archangel

Mora's map captures the essence of urban life in the early 20th century

This remarkable colour lithograph vividly captures one of the most decisive engagements of the Napoleonic Wars

Spring Evening at Otemon Gate by Hasui Kawase, 1952 cambridge Sam HughesSpring Evening at Otemon Gate by Hasui Kawase (1952) distills the hush of twilight into a luminous woodblock landscape. One of the great landscape printmakers of 20thcentury Japan, Hasui channels the centuries old ukiyoe tradition through the lens of the modern shinhanga movement, capturing the quiet poetry of a spring evening as tree branches veil the view and the stately Otemon gate and wall rise beyond a broad reflecting pool. The scene balances