Nakagin Capsule Tower by Nico Tracey Music Hasui Kawase renders Meguro Fudo

Hasui Kawase renders Meguro Fudo Temple with the considered stillness that defines shin-hanga at its finest — a vertical composition drawing the eye upward through layered architectural forms

every fine line and tonal shift in Marra's illustration is reproduced with precision on matte fine art paper

Set against a clean background

the delicate gradations and fine linework of Hasui's original are faithfully preserved

the water's surface given more room to settle into its own quiet logic

Nakagin Capsule Tower by Nico Tracey Music Hasui Kawase renders Meguro FudoNico Tracey's illustration of the Nakagin Capsule Tower distils Kisho Kurokawa's 1972 Metabolist landmark into a bold graphic composition. The building's stacked pod like modules are rendered with geometric precision, each capsule a distinct unit within the tower's mechanical rhythm. Tracey's colour choices flatten the architecture into a graphic field, emphasising the structure's modular logic while giving it the visual weight of a monument. The