True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Kandagawa River and Surugadai
by Inoue Yasuji
by Inoue Yasuji
$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.
The Kandagawa River flows through the heart of central Tokyo, and the view from the Surugadai heights above its southern bank was one of the classic urban prospects of old Edo. Yasuji depicts this well-known view with his characteristic fresh eye, avoiding the visual clichés of older topographic prints in favor of a clear, immediate observation of the river, the embankments, and the city beyond. The Surugadai plateau was associated with the samurai class in the Edo period and was rapidly being transformed by new educational institutions in the Meiji era.
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
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.
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Kandagawa River and Surugadai was created by Inoue Yasuji (井上安治).
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Kandagawa River and Surugadai depicts landscapes and rivers & lakes, set at Tokyo.