Kandagawa, Inokashira (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century 東京百景 21世紀へのメッセジ)
- Date:
- 1989-99
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Description
Part of Yoshida's ambitious One Hundred Views of Tokyo series, this color woodblock depicts the Kanda River at Inokashira, a waterway that winds through western Tokyo's residential neighborhoods. The series subtitle, Message to the 21st Century, frames each print as a document meant to carry the present into the future. Created between 1989 and 1999, the project used traditional mokuhanga technique to record late-twentieth-century Tokyo, a city in constant transformation. The Kanda River view captures a stretch of urban waterway where nature and infrastructure coexist, the ancient technique of woodblock printing preserving a landscape that may look entirely different within a generation.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Kandagawa, Inokashira (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century 東京百景 21世紀へのメッセジ) was created by Ayomi Yoshida (吉田亜世美) in 1989-99.
Kandagawa, Inokashira (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century 東京百景 21世紀へのメッセジ) depicts landscapes, set at Tokyo.