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Fishing Village
漁村
- Date:
- c. 1938
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
漁村
Coastal village subjects by Senpan capture the rhythm of traditional fishing communities with colorful, expressive carving. His sosaku-hanga approach — designing, carving, and printing each impression himself — gives every print a handmade quality impossible to replicate. No posthumous editions were ever produced. Fishing village scenes typically bring $400-$1,000.
A fishing village sits at the water's edge in this circa-1938 Senpan landscape, its boats beached or anchored in a small harbor, the houses of the fishermen packed together above the shoreline in the characteristic density of communities built on the margin of the sea. Fishing villages were natural subjects for Senpan, who was drawn to working communities and the visual interest of practical buildings adapted to the demands of their particular landscape. The circa-1938 date places the print in the years just before the Pacific War changed Japan's coastal communities irreversibly.
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Fishing Village (漁村) was created by Maekawa Senpan (前川千帆) in c. 1938.
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