Marunouch Tokyo
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- wbp
Description
"Marunouchi Tokyo" depicts the central business district that grew up around Tokyo Station in the late Meiji and Taisho periods — the area of Western-influenced office buildings, banks, and commercial headquarters that represented the face of modern Japan's capitalist economy. Marunouchi's characteristic red-brick buildings (built in a British Renaissance style and later replaced by modern glass towers) gave it a distinctly un-Japanese visual character that Okuyama could render as a curious hybrid — the modern Japan that his historical landscape subjects implicitly contrasted with.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Marunouch Tokyo was created by Gihachiro Okuyama (奥山儀八郎).
Marunouch Tokyo depicts urban scenes and architecture, set at Tokyo.