Sumida Park in Kototoi area of Mukôjima ward
- Medium:
- Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
- Image courtesy of
- Saru Gallery
Sumida Park stretches along the eastern bank of the Sumida River in Mukojima, with the Kototoi area near the historic Kototoi Bridge in northern Tokyo. The subject — a riverside park district of the modern capital — fits the program of One Hundred Views of Great Tokyo (Dai Tokyo Hyakkei, 1928–1940). Koizumi's treatment likely emphasizes the park's seasonal character, with cherry trees or autumn foliage carried by registered color blocks and the river surface handled through [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradations. Mukojima had been celebrated for cherry-blossom viewing since the Edo period, and the print joins a continuing meisho tradition of the area while documenting its post-1923 reconstruction as a public park. Koizumi cut and printed every block himself, holding to the [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) principle of artist as sole creator while drawing on subject matter rooted in earlier urban landscape traditions.
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
1932
Color woodblock print; oban
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Color woodblock print; oban
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1931
Color woodblock print; oban
January 1938
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
1938
Color woodblock print; oban
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Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Sumida Park in Kototoi area of Mukôjima ward was created by Kishio Koizumi (小泉癸巳男).
Sumida Park in Kototoi area of Mukôjima ward depicts gardens.