Lake Toya
by Maeda Masao
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art of Japan
Description
Lake Toya — the large caldera lake in southwestern Hokkaido, one of the most scenically beautiful in Japan — is depicted here in one of Maeda Masao's Hokkaido landscape prints. Born in Hakodate and maintaining a deep connection to the northernmost main island throughout his life, Maeda brought particular intimacy to his Hokkaido subjects, Lake Toya's circular caldera and central volcanic island offering him exceptional compositional material. The lake's characteristic combination of deep blue water, the wooded caldera rim, and the dramatic volcanic island — Nakajima — gave the subject a quality of elemental geological grandeur.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Lake Toya was created by Maeda Masao (前田政雄).
Lake Toya depicts rivers & lakes.