The Art of Japan
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- ukiyo-e.org
Key value factors: As self-carved and self-printed works, sosaku-hanga value is tied to the artist's reputation and edition size. Larger formats, earlier editions, and historically significant works command the highest prices.
A second print by Fujimori Shizuo cataloged under The Art of Japan title, this work likely represents another entry in a publication or collection that presented Japanese art to a broader audience. Fujimori's specialty in Tokyo urban views placed his work at the intersection of documentary record and aesthetic object, a dual function that made his prints valuable both to art collectors and to anyone interested in the physical evolution of Japan's capital. The Showa-era Tokyo that Fujimori depicted was a city of startling contrasts: Western department stores beside temple grounds, motorcars sharing roads with rickshaws, neon signs illuminating streets lined with traditional wooden facades. The woodblock medium imposed a unifying aesthetic on these disparate elements, translating the visual chaos of modern Tokyo into the ordered vocabulary of carved and printed images.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
The Art of Japan was created by Fujimori Shizuo (藤森静雄).
The Art of Japan depicts urban scenes and landscapes.