Saisho-in Temple, Hirosaki - Kawase Hasui Art Print
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A five-story pagoda rises tier on tier through snowfall in Kawase Hasui's 1936 view of Saisho-in Temple, its red-lacquered frame glowing against Hirosaki's iron-gray sky like an ember refusing the cold.
Bronze bells hang silent at each corner, weighted with white; louvered blue window screens catch what little daylight pushes through falling flakes. Cedar trunks, bark rust-dark and stripped of low branches, frame the scene's left edge, their crowns holding snow the way old temple roofs hold centuries.
Below, a single pilgrim in indigo cloth and a broad sedge hat approaches a low wooden gate, pack on back, tracks trailing behind through untouched ground. Hasui built his shin-hanga career on studies exactly like this one, sketched during travels through Tohoku's snow country and cut into woodblock under Watanabe Shozaburo's Tokyo studio.
Tsugaru clan patronage once funded pagodas like this; snow now funds the silence around it. Ukiyo-e discipline meets modern printmaking here, one flake, one beam, one footprint at a time.
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1. Vertical
Use the sawtooth hanger at the top middle on the back of the frame and hang it on a single screw or nail.
2. Horizontal
Hang the two sawtooth hangers on two screws or nails at the same heightPut two screws or nails in the wall at the same height, spaced the same distance apart as the two sawtooth hangers, then hang your print on them.
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1. D-rings (most secure)
Screw a D-ring onto the back of the frame on the left and right, both at the same height. A ruler helps here. Then put two screws in the wall where you want your canvas, level with each other and spaced the same distance apart as the D-rings. A spirit level makes this easier. Finally, hook the D-rings onto the screws.
2. Straight onto screws
Keep it simple: put two screws in the wall at the same height and rest the inner lip at the top of the back of the frame on them.
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