Toyama Plain (Toyama no hara), from the series "Twelve Scenes of Tokyo (Tokyo junidai)"
Toyama no hara
by Kawase Hasui
- Series:
- Twelve Scenes of Tokyo (print 4 of 12)
- Date:
- 1920
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 26.5 × 38.5 cm
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Typical Price
Toyama Plain from the Twelve Scenes of Tokyo series shows an open landscape on the outskirts of the capital. Lifetime editions sell for $600-$2,500. This composition's wide, open vista contrasts with the more intimate street and temple views typical of Hasui's Tokyo work, offering collectors a sense of the capital's rural fringes before postwar urbanization consumed them.
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