Numazaki bokujo no hiru Midday rest Numazaki by Hiroshi Yoshida jay stanley Hasui's subtle gradations and precise

Hasui's subtle gradations and precise linework are reproduced with exceptional clarity and sharpness — every brushstroke and atmospheric layer fully intact

Yellow dominates in every register

and the exhibition typography reproduced with clean

Mood and character carry more weight than strict realism here: colour is intuitive

Sauvage's technique of colorizing and recombining archival imagery takes on its most optimistic register here

Numazaki bokujo no hiru Midday rest Numazaki by Hiroshi Yoshida jay stanley Hasui's subtle gradations and preciseNumazaki bokujo no hiru Midday Rest, Numazaki depicts rural Japan at its most languid: livestock resting in open pasture under a broad, hazy midday sky. Yoshida uses a wide, unhurried composition that gives the scene room to breathe, with the horizon set low and the sky occupying much of the picture plane. The light is warm and diffuse, flattening shadows and casting an atmosphere of heat and stillness. It is an unusually calm subject for Yoshida, and