Shinjuku
- Date:
- 1938
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Yoshida Studio
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
Shinjuku in 1938 was Tokyo's largest entertainment and commercial district, its streets dense with department stores, cinemas, and restaurants catering to the expanding urban middle class. Yoshida's print captures the neighborhood at a pivotal moment — the city modernizing rapidly while traditional street patterns and architectural forms persisted in the interstices. His urban subjects carry an implicit documentary quality: Tokyo was being rebuilt and transformed throughout his career, and prints like Shinjuku record the texture of specific urban environments before they were consumed by further change.
More Prints by Hiroshi Yoshida
More Urban Scenes Prints
A Hundred Shades of Ink of Edo: Kiyonaga's Pipe (Edo zumi hyaku shoku: Kiyonaga no kiseru)
Woodblock print
View of Kabuki Theater from Matsuya (Ginza Matsuya yori Kabukiza), no. 3 from the series "Pictures of Ginza, First Series (Gashu Ginza dai isshu)"
1928
Color lithograph
Distant View of Mitsukoshi Movie Theater in Shinjuku from the Sixth Floor of Hoteiya (Hoteiya rokkai kara Shinjuku Mitsukoshi Musashi no kan enbo zu), no. 1 from the series "Scenery of Shinjuku (Gashu Shinjuku fukei)"
1930
Color lithograph
Spring Dusk at the Tōshō Shrine in Ueno
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Shinjuku was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1938.
Shinjuku was published by Yoshida Studio (1938).
Shinjuku depicts urban scenes.