Art Print Postcard SPRING ON THE MOUNTAIN by Kawase Hasui

Collotype is an interesting fusion between French and Japanese discoveries. The printing process was discovered in France, about 150 years ago. It was a new style of printing that combines photography and printmaking and the results are one-of-a-kind. BENRIDO was established in 1887 in Kyoto, where they have been specializing in Collotype printing since 1905. With over a century of experience in the craft, they are one of the very few Collotype studios left, and the world???s only one that produces full-color photographic Collotype prints. They have won several awards and recognitions and have been responsible for many big art works and projects in Japan and abroad.

Kawase Hasui (1883 to 1957)

Born in Tokyo and earned Japanese painting from Kiyokata Kaburagi. Under the influence of Shinsui Ito's "Eight Views of Omi", he worked on printmaking, and under the influence of the publisher Shozaburo Watanabe, pursued "new prints" using traditional techniques of ukiyo-e, and created landscape prints rich in travel. Representative works are "Twenty Views of Tokyo" and "Twelve Titles of Tokyo".