Charcoal-making at Hino
by Ito Shinsui
- Date:
- 1939
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 24.9 × 37.2 cm
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
Description
The production of charcoal—a major rural industry in Japan's mountain villages—at the hill town of Hino in Shiga Prefecture provides an unusual industrial-craft subject for this 1939 print. Shinsui occasionally turned his landscape attention to scenes of human labor in natural settings, and the charcoal-making kiln, with its billowing smoke and smoldering wood, offered a subject quite different from the serene atmospheric landscapes that formed the majority of his non-bijin-ga work.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Charcoal-making at Hino was created by Ito Shinsui (伊東深水) in 1939.
Charcoal-making at Hino was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1939).
Charcoal-making at Hino depicts craftspeople and daily life.
Charcoal-making at Hino measures 24.9 × 37.2 cm (Oban format).