Takyama San no Machi B

San-no-machi is one of Takayama's best-preserved historic merchant streets, lined with Edo-period sake breweries, craft shops, and latticed machiya townhouses. In this woodblock print — likely a companion to a related view designated 'A' — Kawada Kan depicts the street's characteristic architectural rhythm: low rooflines, dark timber facades, and the lanterns or noren curtains that mark active establishments. His stencil-influenced compositional method translates the street's repetitive structural elements into a patterned sequence of flat color planes and strong verticals, consistent with the katazome aesthetic he developed under Serizawa Keisuke. The 'B' designation suggests this is a variant framing or alternative color treatment within a paired series, a common practice in [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) when an artist wished to explore a single location from differing formal perspectives.