Dokan yamashita
by Inoue Yasuji
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
Typical Price
$1,000–$8,000. Common views: $1,000–$2,500. Key value factors: Inoue's Meiji-era Tokyo views, influenced by his teacher Kiyochika, have both artistic and historical value. His early death makes works scarce.
Description
Dokan-yamashita, a district at the foot of a hill associated with the medieval warlord Ota Dokan who built Edo Castle, is shown here in one of Yasuji's quieter topographic studies. The area lay in what is now central Tokyo, and by the Meiji period it had become a busy commercial zone where old Edo street patterns persisted alongside new government buildings and Western-influenced shopfronts. Yasuji's composition records the layering of old and new Tokyo with the unaffected directness that marks his distinctive documentary voice.
More Prints by Inoue Yasuji
The Emperor Meiji and Empress in a Carriage during their Silver Wedding Anniversary Celebration at Aoyama
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Asakusa Hirokoji Broadway
Woodblock print
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Taro Inari Shrine in Asakusa-tanbo
Woodblock print
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: The Burnt Remains of Ryogokubashi Bridge
Woodblock print
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
Dokan yamashita was created by Inoue Yasuji (井上安治).
Dokan yamashita depicts urban scenes and landscapes.