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Akaurawan no Yuushou (Evening Glow at Akaurawan) by Gihachiro Okuyama — Japanese Woodblock print

Akaurawan no Yuushou (Evening Glow at Akaurawan)

by Gihachiro Okuyama

Sōsaku-hanga
Night Scenes
Medium:
Woodblock print
Edition:
Self-printed

Description

"Evening Glow at Akaurawan" (Akaurawan no Yuushou) presents the fleeting spectacle of sunset light over Akaurawan — a bay or inlet whose name suggests the reddened (aka) waters of evening. The phenomenon of reflected sunset light on still water — the sky's colors doubled in the bay's surface — was one of the canonical subjects of Japanese landscape art, and Okuyama's sosaku-hanga approach rendered it through his personal observation rather than convention. The warm reds and oranges of evening glow against the cooling blues of water and sky create the compositional tension he sought.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Akaurawan no Yuushou (Evening Glow at Akaurawan) was created by Gihachiro Okuyama (奥山儀八郎).

Akaurawan no Yuushou (Evening Glow at Akaurawan) depicts night scenes.