All day
Description
"All day" suggests the passage of hours through a single scene — the quality of light shifting across a traditional Japanese façade from morning through the long afternoon into dusk. Nishijima's sensitivity to illumination as a primary subject allows him to invest architectural study with temporal depth: the same rooflines and latticed walls that carry morning shadow will catch afternoon light and catch dusk's warmth, each transformation revealing different qualities in the familiar forms. The title implies a kind of patient presence, as if the artist spent the full day watching the same scene change.
More Prints by Katsuyuki Nishijima
More Urban Scenes Prints
A Hundred Shades of Ink of Edo: Kiyonaga's Pipe (Edo zumi hyaku shoku: Kiyonaga no kiseru)
Woodblock print
View of Kabuki Theater from Matsuya (Ginza Matsuya yori Kabukiza), no. 3 from the series "Pictures of Ginza, First Series (Gashu Ginza dai isshu)"
1928
Color lithograph
Distant View of Mitsukoshi Movie Theater in Shinjuku from the Sixth Floor of Hoteiya (Hoteiya rokkai kara Shinjuku Mitsukoshi Musashi no kan enbo zu), no. 1 from the series "Scenery of Shinjuku (Gashu Shinjuku fukei)"
1930
Color lithograph
Spring Dusk at the Tōshō Shrine in Ueno
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Frequently Asked Questions
All day was created by Katsuyuki Nishijima (西島勝之).
All day depicts urban scenes and architecture.