Seaside Village
by Maeda Masao
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Honolulu Museum of Art
by Maeda Masao
$500–$4,000. Common landscapes: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Maeda Masao's atmospheric mountain and landscape prints have a dedicated following among sosaku-hanga collectors.
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](/glossary/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.
1940
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
Boshu Taikai
1925
Color woodblock print; oban
September 1931
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Seaside Village was created by Maeda Masao (前田政雄).
Seaside Village depicts seascapes and village scenes.
