$400–$3,000. Common subjects: $400–$1,000. Key value factors: Okuyama's prints are relatively affordable. Bold, well-preserved examples are most valued.
"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.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Marunouch Tokyo was created by Gihachiro Okuyama (奥山儀八郎).
Marunouch Tokyo depicts urban scenes and architecture, set at Tokyo.
