Sea Coast, Futomi
- Date:
- 1956
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
$500–$4,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Sasajima's meditative prints appeal to collectors of both Japanese prints and modern art.
This 1956 woodblock print depicts the coastal landscape at Futomi, a fishing village on the Pacific coast of the Boso Peninsula in Chiba Prefecture. The sea coast offered Sasajima a subject quite different from his characteristic mountain and forest scenes, opening the composition to the wide horizontal of the ocean horizon. Futomi's rocky shoreline, where the Boso hills meet the sea, provides the kind of geological drama that Sasajima could translate into bold carved forms. The coastal setting introduces elements absent from the interior landscapes: salt air, tidal rhythms, the collision of wave and rock. Sasajima renders these coastal forces with the same contemplative attention he brought to mountain streams, finding in the meeting of land and sea another expression of natural dynamism.
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n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Sea Coast, Futomi was created by Kihei Sasajima (笹島喜平) in 1956.
Sea Coast, Futomi depicts landscapes and seascapes.
