True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Sendai Canal, Fukagawa
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 Sendai Canal in Fukagawa carried goods from Tokyo Bay into the warehousing and processing districts of the eastern city, its working character defining one of the most industrially active neighborhoods in Meiji Tokyo. Yasuji depicts the canal with his characteristic attention to the infrastructure of working life, capturing the embankments, moored boats, and warehouse buildings that made Fukagawa the economic engine of the city's eastern waterfront. The print belongs to his sustained documentation of Tokyo's canal system as a functioning urban organism.
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Nikko Chuzenjiko
1930
Color woodblock print; oban
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Niigata Gosaibori
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Sendai Canal, Fukagawa was created by Inoue Yasuji (井上安治).
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Sendai Canal, Fukagawa depicts rivers & lakes, set at Tokyo.