Seaside Village
by Maeda Masao
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Honolulu Museum of Art
Description
Seaside Village depicts a Japanese coastal community — its fishing boats, modest houses, and the omnipresent relationship with the sea — in Maeda Masao's direct sosaku-hanga manner. The seaside village was a consistent subject in twentieth-century Japanese printmaking, the working coastal community providing material that combined landscape beauty with the social life of labor. Maeda's bold carved line gives the boats, buildings, and figures of the village a graphic directness that asserts the artist's own hand in the work's production, the self-carved quality of sosaku-hanga honoring the craft tradition of the fishing communities depicted.
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Child of the Sea
1940
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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
Pacific Ocean, Awa Province (Boshu Taikai), from the series "Souvenirs of Travel, Third Series (Tabi miyage dai sanshu)"
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1925
Color woodblock print; oban
Pine Beach at Miho (Miho no Matsubara), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)"
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Frequently Asked Questions
Seaside Village was created by Maeda Masao (前田政雄).
Seaside Village depicts seascapes and village scenes.