$500–$5,000. As part of a celebrated series, this print benefits from strong collector demand. Good landscapes: $2,000–$3,500. Key value factors: Kitaoka's refined style has a modest but loyal collector base.
Shibaura on Tokyo Bay is rendered in this 1989-99 print from Kitaoka's ambitious "One Hundred Views of Tokyo: Message to the 21st Century" series — his late-career project of documenting Tokyo's urban landscape for future generations. The bayside district of Shibaura, then undergoing development as part of Tokyo's waterfront renewal, is captured at a transitional moment: the old industrial waterfront giving way to the new, the bay's water framing the city's evolving silhouette. The series title's address to the future gives even this specific topographic view an elegiac dimension.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Tokyo bay side Shibaura (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 Fumio Kitaoka (北岡文雄) in 1989-99.
Tokyo bay side Shibaura (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 and seascapes, set at Tokyo.
