True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Night View of Shinbashi Station
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.
Shinbashi Station — Japan's first railway terminus, opened in 1872 to connect Tokyo with Yokohama — is depicted at night in this document of Meiji modernity. The station was both a functional hub and a powerful symbol: the railway itself had been imported wholesale from Britain, and the station building's Western architecture announced that Japan was participating in the global industrial revolution. Yasuji's nocturne captures the station's illuminated facade and the activity around it, rendering the new technology with the same careful observation he brought to Edo's ancient bridges and shrines.
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Night View of Shinbashi Station was created by Inoue Yasuji (井上安治).
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Night View of Shinbashi Station depicts urban scenes, landscapes, and night scenes, set at Tokyo.