$500–$8,000. As part of a celebrated series, this print benefits from strong collector demand. Good abstract prints: $2,500–$5,000. Key value factors: Hagiwara's abstract works are collected by both Japanese print and modern art collectors.
From the series "One Hundred Views of Tokyo / Message to the 21st Century," this print captures Tokyo at sunset — the city's skyline dissolved into a wash of warm color that blurs the distinction between architecture and atmosphere. Created between 1989 and 1999 as Hagiwara's major late project, the series engaged with the city he had observed for most of his working life, finding in its transformation and persistence a subject for sustained reflection. The sunset light reduces the urban environment to color and form, the abstract qualities of the sky absorbing the specific details of the city below.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Sunset in Tokyo (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century 東京百景 21世紀へのメッセジ) was created by Hideo Hagiwara (萩原英雄) in 1989-99.
Sunset in Tokyo (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century 東京百景 21世紀へのメッセジ) depicts landscapes and night scenes, set at Tokyo.
