Komagata Embankment (Komagatagashi), from the series "Twelve Scenes of Tokyo (Tokyo junidai)"
Komagatagashi
by Kawase Hasui
- Series:
- Twelve Scenes of Tokyo (print 1 of 12)
- Date:
- 1919
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print; oban
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 39.2 × 26.6 cm
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Typical Price
Part of the Twelve Scenes of Tokyo series, this view of the Komagata embankment along the Sumida River captures everyday Tokyo waterfront life. Lifetime editions sell for $600-$2,500. The Twelve Scenes series documents interwar Tokyo neighborhoods that were often destroyed in subsequent decades, giving these prints documentary as well as artistic value.
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