MATSUNOUCHI
Description
"Matsunouchi" refers to the period of "within the pine" — the first days of the new year through the fifteenth of January, when kadomatsu pine decorations stand at the entrances of Japanese homes and businesses as symbols of the new year's welcome. Nishijima renders a traditional street or architecture decorated for this festive period: the pine and bamboo decorations at doorways, the particular quality of new-year light, the sense of a community engaged in collective ritual renewal that the Japanese new year uniquely provides.
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
MATSUNOUCHI was created by Katsuyuki Nishijima (西島勝之).
MATSUNOUCHI depicts urban scenes, architecture, and winter.