Tsukiji fish market, from
by Oda Kazuma
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- harashobo
Description
Tsukiji Fish Market — one of Tokyo's great institutions, the wholesale fish market that supplied the city's restaurants and households from the Meiji period until its 2018 relocation to Toyosu — appears in this print from an unidentified series. The market at its working hours presented a spectacle of organized activity: the auction floors, the ice-packed stalls of fresh fish, the vendors and buyers in constant negotiation, all within the distinctive atmosphere of cold, salt-scented air. Kazuma renders this working waterfront institution with the attentiveness he brought to all his urban subjects.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Tsukiji fish market, from was created by Oda Kazuma (織田一磨).
Tsukiji fish market, from depicts urban scenes, fish, and market scenes.