$500–$4,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Maekawa's early sosaku-hanga works are historically significant. Bold, expressive prints are most valued.
"Night of Shinjuku" from the "Scenes of Last Tokyo" series — the "last Tokyo" referring to the pre-destruction city that the wartime bombing was in the process of eliminating — is Senpan's image of the entertainment district at night, its commercial lights and urban density rendered with the directness of a printmaker who knew these streets. The "Last Tokyo" title transforms the urban night scene into something elegiac: this is the city as it was, before the fires, before the reconstruction, before the new Tokyo that would replace everything he had known.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Shinjnku no yo (Night of Shinjuku) / Tokyo kaiko zue (Scenes of Last Tokyo) was created by Maekawa Senpan (前川千帆).
Shinjnku no yo (Night of Shinjuku) / Tokyo kaiko zue (Scenes of Last Tokyo) depicts urban scenes and night scenes, set at Tokyo.
