Tokyo Station
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- wbp
Description
"Tokyo Station" depicts the brick facade of Tokyo's central railway terminus — built in 1914 in a European Renaissance style and now one of the city's most beloved architectural landmarks — as an urban subject that combined the historical and the modern in a single structure. Tokyo Station's characteristic red-brick exterior and long, symmetrical facade represented the Meiji and Taisho periods' confident adoption of Western architectural forms for Japan's most important public buildings. Okuyama's rendering of this institutional landmark extends his sosaku-hanga practice into urban architectural documentation.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Tokyo Station was created by Gihachiro Okuyama (奥山儀八郎).
Tokyo Station depicts urban scenes and travel scenes, set at Tokyo.