Landscape
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Art of Japan
Description
A landscape composition in which Tanaka Kiyokichi engages with one of Japanese printmaking's most enduring subjects. Rather than reproducing a famous named view in the manner of Edo-period meisho prints, Tanaka presents landscape as a more personal, unspecified encounter with natural terrain. The sosaku hanga ethos of individual artistic expression freed printmakers like Tanaka from the obligation to depict recognizable landmarks, allowing them instead to respond to landscape as a felt experience—the quality of light on a hillside, the weight of clouds above a valley, the texture of earth and vegetation rendered through carved wood grain.
More Prints by Tanaka Kiyokichi
More Landscapes Prints
Lake Kugushi in Wakasa Province (Wakasa Kugushiko), from the series Souvenirs of Travel I (Tabi miyage dai isshu)"
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Autumn Maple Leaves at Takao, from the album Eight Views of Kyoto (Kyôto hakkei)
Woodblock print
The Beach at Kaiganji in Sanuki Province (Sanuki Kaiganji no hama), from the series "Collection of Views of Japan II, Kansai Edition (Nihon fukei shu II Kansai hen)"
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
Tea Kettle, section of a sheet from the series "Mirror of Stone Rubbings of Views of the Provinces" (Kohon meihitsu ishizuri kagami)
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Landscape was created by Tanaka Kiyokichi (田中恭吉).
Landscape depicts landscapes.