True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Woolen Textile Factory, Senju
by Inoue Yasuji
by Inoue Yasuji
$1,000–$8,000. Kabuki actor portraits are highly collectible. Good Tokyo light-effect prints: $2,500–$5,000. 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 Woolen Textile Factory at Senju — the government-established mill in the northern reaches of Tokyo, one of the Meiji industrial projects designed to build Japan's manufacturing capacity — is depicted here as a monument to the era's commitment to industrial development. The Senju mill was part of a network of model factories established in the 1870s and 1880s to introduce Western industrial techniques to Japanese production. Yasuji records the factory buildings with the same documentary precision he brought to temples and bridges, treating industrial architecture as simply the newest addition to Tokyo's built landscape.
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Woolen Textile Factory, Senju was created by Inoue Yasuji (井上安治).
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Woolen Textile Factory, Senju depicts urban scenes, architecture, and craftspeople, set at Tokyo.