Nogami, Saitama Prefecture (Saitama ken Nogami-cho)
by Kawase Hasui
- Date:
- 1946
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Description
Nogami in Saitama Prefecture is a rural community in the northern Saitama plain, its flat agricultural landscape of rice paddies and windbreaks typical of the Kanto lowlands. This 1946 postwar print captures a quiet rural scene — the kind of overlooked provincial subject Hasui consistently found picturesque. The flat terrain of northern Saitama gave Hasui a wide-sky, low-horizon composition unlike his mountain and coastal subjects.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Nogami, Saitama Prefecture (Saitama ken Nogami-cho) was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in 1946.
Nogami, Saitama Prefecture (Saitama ken Nogami-cho) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1946).
Nogami, Saitama Prefecture (Saitama ken Nogami-cho) depicts landscapes and village scenes.