Kikuzaka Street
- Date:
- 1939
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Yoshida Studio
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
Kikuzaka Street depicts a residential lane in Tokyo, the kind of quiet backstreet that persisted in the city even as modernization transformed its main thoroughfares. Yoshida's 1939 composition shows the characteristic rhythms of a traditional streetscape — wooden eaves, a curving path, the filtered light of an overcast sky. As the city around such neighborhoods was rebuilt in the years following the Great Kanto Earthquake, Yoshida's urban prints took on the quality of a considered visual record, attentive to the texture of ordinary life.
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Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Kikuzaka Street was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1939.
Kikuzaka Street was published by Yoshida Studio (1939).
Kikuzaka Street depicts urban scenes.