Komagata Embankment (Komagata-gashi), from the series Twelve Scenes of Tokyo (Tôkyô jûnidai)
by Kawase Hasui
- Series:
- Twelve Scenes of Tokyo
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Museum of Fine Arts Boston
- Image courtesy of
- Museum of Fine Arts Boston
by Kawase Hasui
From Hasui's Tôkyô jûnidai (Twelve Scenes of Tokyo) series published by Watanabe Shozaburo, this oban-format print depicts the Komagata-gashi, the stone embankment running along the Sumida River near Komagata Bridge in the Asakusa area. The series documented the traditional character of Tokyo's shitamachi neighborhoods during the Taisho and early Showa periods. The embankment provided Hasui with a compositional anchor — its stone curve guiding the eye toward the river, where river craft or ferries may appear mid-channel. Sky and water likely receive careful graduated washes (bokashi), a technique central to shin-hanga printmaking that distinguishes it from Meiji-period reproductions. Figures on the embankment, if present, are small and incidental, subordinate to the landscape mood. The series as a whole reflects the shin-hanga program of preserving a vision of Edo-period Tokyo through modern chromoxylographic techniques.
Color woodblock print
Color woodblock print
Color woodblock print
Color woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Komagata Embankment (Komagata-gashi), from the series Twelve Scenes of Tokyo (Tôkyô jûnidai) was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水).
Yes — Komagata Embankment (Komagata-gashi), from the series Twelve Scenes of Tokyo (Tôkyô jûnidai) is part of the Twelve Scenes of Tokyo series by Kawase Hasui.
Komagata Embankment (Komagata-gashi), from the series Twelve Scenes of Tokyo (Tôkyô jûnidai) depicts edo & tokyo.
