The Flying (Metropolitan Goverment-I) (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century 東京百景 21世紀へのメッセジ)
- Date:
- 1989-99
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
$200–$1,500. Common prints: $200–$500. Key value factors: Kawachi's prints are affordably priced. Quality examples with good provenance are most valued.
A color woodblock print from Kawachi Seiko's "One Hundred Views of Tokyo" series, subtitled "Message to the 21st Century," depicting the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building in flight. Created between 1989 and 1999, this ambitious series reimagines Tokyo's landmarks with surreal transformations. The Metropolitan Government Building, Kenzo Tange's towering twin-tower complex in Shinjuku completed in 1991, is shown lifting off from its foundations and soaring above the city. Kawachi's fantastical vision turns architecture into something airborne and liberated, questioning the permanence of even the most monumental urban structures and imagining a Tokyo where buildings themselves become restless and mobile.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
The Flying (Metropolitan Goverment-I) (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century 東京百景 21世紀へのメッセジ) was created by Kawachi Seiko (河内清光) in 1989-99.
The Flying (Metropolitan Goverment-I) (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century 東京百景 21世紀へのメッセジ) depicts landscapes, set at Tokyo.
