Sakurada Gate, from the series "Twenty Views of Tokyo" (Tokyo nijukei, Sakuradamon)
by Kawase Hasui
by Kawase Hasui
From the Twenty Views of Tokyo series (1925–1930) — Hasui's most prestigious documented series and the foundation of serious collecting. These prints document interwar Tokyo neighborhoods with extraordinary atmospheric sensitivity. Christie's is the most active auction house for this series, having handled 533+ Hasui lots. Series membership adds a consistent premium over standalone compositions of comparable subjects. Pre-war lifetime editions bearing the Watanabe copyright seal (A through G types, 1926–1944) are the most desirable.
Sakurada Gate in the outer walls of the Imperial Palace compound in central Tokyo was where Ii Naosuke was assassinated in 1860, and Hasui's 1928 print from the Twenty Views of Tokyo shows the stone gate and its surrounding moat in a quiet daytime scene. The gate's stone walls and the reflective moat gave Hasui the same stone-and-water compositional formula he used for Nijubashi. Bokashi gradations in the sky above the gate established the composition's atmospheric depth.
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.
Sakurada Gate, from the series "Twenty Views of Tokyo" (Tokyo nijukei, Sakuradamon) was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in 1928.
Yes — Sakurada Gate, from the series "Twenty Views of Tokyo" (Tokyo nijukei, Sakuradamon) is part of the Twenty Views of Tokyo series by Kawase Hasui.
Sakurada Gate, from the series "Twenty Views of Tokyo" (Tokyo nijukei, Sakuradamon) uses Bokashi, on color woodblock print.
Sakurada Gate, from the series "Twenty Views of Tokyo" (Tokyo nijukei, Sakuradamon) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1928).
Sakurada Gate, from the series "Twenty Views of Tokyo" (Tokyo nijukei, Sakuradamon) depicts landscapes, edo & tokyo, and architecture, set at Tokyo.
