
Sunset in Tokyo (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century)
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- Art Institute of Chicago
Description
An abstracted city skyline in dark blue-black silhouette spans the lower third against a mottled red-to-orange gradient sky, with a pale orange sun disk sitting just above the rooftops and three dark horizontal cloud bands streaking across the upper red field. The composition is built from a visible grid of small rectangular blocks, giving the sky, buildings, and foreground a woven, patterned texture, while the lower edge shows horizontal bands of maroon, grey, and blue. Hideo Hagiwara's 1989 woodblock print "Sunset in Tokyo" (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century) is signed in pencil and numbered 33/100 below the image.
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Sunset in Tokyo (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century) was created by Hideo Hagiwara (萩原英雄).


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