Tokyo Landscape
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
Description
A Tokyo landscape — the city seen from some vantage that compresses its horizontal sprawl into a composition of rooflines, towers, and the spaces between buildings — is rendered in Kitaoka's characteristically geometric style. The city as subject posed particular challenges for a modernist committed to simplification: Tokyo's density and variety resisted the kind of reduction that worked for mountain or forest. Kitaoka's solution was to find the underlying geometric order of the urban landscape beneath its apparent chaos.
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The Beach at Kaiganji in Sanuki Province (Sanuki Kaiganji no hama), from the series "Collection of Views of Japan II, Kansai Edition (Nihon fukei shu II Kansai hen)"
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Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Tokyo Landscape was created by Fumio Kitaoka (北岡文雄).
Tokyo Landscape depicts landscapes, set at Tokyo.