Evening Twilight at Haneda Airport (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century 東京百景 21世紀へのメッセジ)

Created between 1989 and 1999 as part of the series One Hundred Views of Tokyo: Message to the 21st Century, this color woodblock print depicts Haneda Airport at twilight. The subject matter, a modern international airport bathed in evening light, represents a bold expansion of the meisho (famous places) tradition into contemporary infrastructure. Kusaka transforms the runway lights, terminal buildings, and aircraft into a composition where industrial forms take on an unexpected beauty under the fading sky. The series title explicitly positions the work as a bridge between centuries, using the traditional hundred-views format pioneered by Hiroshige to document Tokyo as it approached the millennium. The twilight setting softens the hard edges of aviation architecture, and the color woodblock technique lends warmth to a subject that photography might render as cold and clinical.