The cherry blossoms are in full bloom, but Hasui gives the scene to the blue hour.

A crescent moon hangs above the five-storey pagoda at Ueno Tōshō-gū, while the blossoms gather below like pale smoke. The temple is dark against the evening sky, turning a famous Tokyo landmark into something private and almost dreamlike.

Hasui painted Japan in weather. Snow after silence, temples after rain, lakes under clear skies, roads emptied by dusk. His prints turn everyday places into moments you feel you have just missed.