Morning on the Daikon Wharf (Daikon-gashi no asa), from the series Twenty Views of Tokyo (Tôkyô nijûkei)
by Kawase Hasui
- Series:
- Twenty Views of Tokyo
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Museum of Fine Arts Boston
by Kawase Hasui
This print belongs to Hasui's 'Twenty Views of Tokyo' (Tôkyô nijûkei) series, a significant body of work documenting the surviving Edo-period character of the capital in the early twentieth century. Daikon-gashi — the vegetable wharf named for the white radishes (daikon) historically unloaded there — was located on the Nihonbashi River, part of the dense canal network that defined commercial Edo. By the Taisho era when Hasui made these designs, much of Tokyo's old waterway infrastructure was being supplanted by road and rail, lending the series an elegiac quality. A morning scene at the wharf would show the waterway before the day's commercial activity begins — flat water reflecting warehouses and the sky, perhaps a single boat at anchor, early light catching the tiled or thatched rooflines of Shitamachi's surviving vernacular architecture. The composition belongs to the meisho-e tradition of topographical portraiture while filtering that tradition through Hasui's characteristic atmospheric quietism.
Color woodblock print
Color woodblock print
Color woodblock print
Color woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Morning on the Daikon Wharf (Daikon-gashi no asa), from the series Twenty Views of Tokyo (Tôkyô nijûkei) was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水).
Yes — Morning on the Daikon Wharf (Daikon-gashi no asa), from the series Twenty Views of Tokyo (Tôkyô nijûkei) is part of the Twenty Views of Tokyo series by Kawase Hasui.
Morning on the Daikon Wharf (Daikon-gashi no asa), from the series Twenty Views of Tokyo (Tôkyô nijûkei) depicts edo & tokyo and famous places (meisho-e).
