True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: New Moon Over the One Hundred Piles
by Inoue Yasuji
by Inoue Yasuji
$1,000–$8,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. 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 new moon — thin and precise against the night sky — hangs over the Hyapponkui, the "One Hundred Piles" of timber that formed the great embankment on the Sumida River at Ryogoku. Yasuji's nocturne pairs the geometric order of the pilings with the delicate natural arc of the crescent moon, creating a composition of quiet geometric beauty. The "one hundred piles" were themselves a famous Edo landmark, their repeated forms stretching along the river's edge providing both practical flood defense and picturesque visual material.
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
![Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)" by Kawase Hasui](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d0960668-1e73-339a-b182-fb995a54bff0/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
1947
Color woodblock print; oban
March 1933
Color woodblock print; oban
1919
Color woodblock print
January 1938
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: New Moon Over the One Hundred Piles was created by Inoue Yasuji (井上安治).
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: New Moon Over the One Hundred Piles depicts moonlight and night scenes, set at Tokyo.