Yotsuya Scene (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century 東京百景 21世紀へのメッセジ)
- Date:
- 1989-99
- Medium:
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Description
A black-and-white woodblock print depicting a Christian church with a tall bell tower topped by a cross, rendered in bold graphic strokes with a large round window on the gabled facade and arched windows below. A large tree with dense, rounded foliage dominates the right side, with smaller trees and shrubs framing the building and a stylized cloud pattern filling the sky above. The composition is stark and graphic, built entirely from black ink shapes against the white paper, with a red artist's seal in the lower right corner; pencil annotations in the margin mark the print as an edition (numbered) alongside the title "Yotsuya Scene" from Kihei Sasajima's 1990 series One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Yotsuya Scene (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century 東京百景 21世紀へのメッセジ) was created by Kihei Sasajima (笹島喜平) in 1989-99.
Yotsuya Scene (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century 東京百景 21世紀へのメッセジ) depicts landscapes, set at Tokyo.