The Ruins of Fukuoka Castle (Fukuokajoshi)
by Kawase Hasui
- Date:
- 1940
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Description
Fukuoka Castle, the seat of the Kuroda clan's domain on Kyushu, survives today only as stone walls and a few turrets on the Maizuru Park hillside above Hakata Bay. Hasui's 1940 print shows the castle ruins in their park setting — the stone wall sections visible through maturing trees, the bay in the background. The castle ruins subjects in Hasui's late prewar period carried an implicit meditation on historical loss that gained a different resonance in the early postwar years.
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The Ruins of Fukuoka Castle (Fukuokajoshi) was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in 1940.
The Ruins of Fukuoka Castle (Fukuokajoshi) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1940).
The Ruins of Fukuoka Castle (Fukuokajoshi) depicts castles.