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Kawase Hasui as a youth, he dreamed of an art career. His parents had him take on the family rope and thread wholesaling business, but its bankruptcy when he was 26 led him to pursue art. He applied as a student to Kaburagi, who bestowed the name Hasui upon him, which can be translated as "water gushing from a spring", and derives from his elementary school combined with an ideogram of his family name. Hasui designed almost one thousand woodblock prints over a career that spanned nearly forty years. Towards the end of his life the government recognized him as a Living National Treasure for his contribution to Japanese culture.