True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Night View of Sujikai Street
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.
Sujikai Street at night — the diagonal avenue near the old Sujikaimon gate of Edo Castle — was one of the commercial arteries of the city center, its gas lamps and shop lights creating an animated nocturnal scene. Yasuji renders the night street with the interest in light effects that he inherited from his teacher Kiyochika, but applies it with his own characteristic directness, treating the illuminated commercial space as social document rather than purely aesthetic study. The street scene captures the mixture of Edo commercial tradition and Meiji modernization that defined central Tokyo in the 1880s.
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 Sujikai Street was created by Inoue Yasuji (井上安治).
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Night View of Sujikai Street depicts urban scenes, landscapes, and night scenes, set at Tokyo.