Landscape of Susaki (Susaki no kei), from the series "Views of Tokyo (Tokyo fukei)"
by Oda Kazuma
by Oda Kazuma
Key value factors: As self-carved and self-printed works, sosaku-hanga value is tied to the artist's reputation and edition size. Larger formats, earlier editions, and historically significant works command the highest prices.
Susaki, a low-lying promontory on the eastern edge of Fukagawa in the Shitamachi district of Tokyo, offered Oda Kazuma a subject that balanced the watery expanses of Tokyo Bay with the modest human settlement at the water's edge. As the first print in his 1916 "Views of Tokyo" series — one of the earliest significant sosaku-hanga series — this lithograph establishes Kazuma's approach: an eye trained in Western plein-air painting applied to characteristically Japanese places. The waterway views and harbor scenes he chose were already receding before modernization, and his series captured them with a rare combination of topographic precision and painterly sensibility.
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.
Landscape of Susaki (Susaki no kei), from the series "Views of Tokyo (Tokyo fukei)" was created by Oda Kazuma (織田一磨) in 1916.
Yes — Landscape of Susaki (Susaki no kei), from the series "Views of Tokyo (Tokyo fukei)" is part of the Views of Tokyo (Tokyo fukei) series by Oda Kazuma.
Landscape of Susaki (Susaki no kei), from the series "Views of Tokyo (Tokyo fukei)" uses Lithograph, on lithograph on paper.
Landscape of Susaki (Susaki no kei), from the series "Views of Tokyo (Tokyo fukei)" depicts landscapes, edo & tokyo, and famous places (meisho-e), set at Tokyo.
