Disinfection at the Port
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
Typical Price
$500–$5,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Kitaoka's refined style has a modest but loyal collector base.
$500–$5,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Kitaoka's refined style has a modest but loyal collector base.
Disinfection stations at ports and transit points were a feature of the immediate postwar repatriation, as Japanese authorities attempted to prevent the spread of disease from the mainland. This print records the procedure with Kitaoka's characteristic documentary eye: figures processed through a bureaucratic system, the individual reduced to a body being treated. The port setting places the scene at the literal threshold between the world left behind and the country being returned to — a liminal space given physical, procedural form.
1940
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
Boshu Taikai
1925
Color woodblock print; oban
September 1931
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Disinfection at the Port was created by Fumio Kitaoka (北岡文雄).
Disinfection at the Port depicts seascapes.
