KURASHIKI-NO-ROJI (Street in Kurashiki)
Description
Kurashiki's famous canal district preserves the finest concentration of Edo-period kura merchant-house architecture in western Japan, its whitewashed walls and black-tiled rooflines reflected in the willow-lined waterway that runs through the historic quarter. Nishijima renders a lane in this celebrated district with his characteristic precision for kura architecture — the layered walls, the distinctive roof treatment, the harmonious relationship between built form and the canal it faces. The Kurashiki canal district offered Nishijima one of his most architecturally coherent subjects outside his native Kyoto region.
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
KURASHIKI-NO-ROJI (Street in Kurashiki) was created by Katsuyuki Nishijima (西島勝之).
KURASHIKI-NO-ROJI (Street in Kurashiki) depicts urban scenes.