True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Morning View of Ayasegawa River
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.
A morning view of the Ayasegawa River — one of the rivers threading through the eastern agricultural lowlands beyond Edo's urban margin — captures the quiet hour before activity on the waterway begins. Yasuji's composition places the viewer on the bank looking across the wide flat landscape, the river's surface catching the morning light amid fields and distant tree lines. The print documents one of the landscape views accessible from the city's northeastern edges, where urban Tokyo gave way to the rice paddies and market gardens that fed the metropolitan population.
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: Morning View of Ayasegawa River was created by Inoue Yasuji (井上安治).
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Morning View of Ayasegawa River depicts landscapes and rivers & lakes, set at Tokyo.