Tsukiji monseki / Site of the Gateway, Tsukiji / Tokyo meisho zue / Famous Places in Tokyo
- Date:
- 1893 (1 September;printing; 5 September;published)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- British Museum
Key value factors: As self-carved and self-printed works, sosaku-hanga value is tied to the artist's reputation and edition size. Larger formats, earlier editions, and historically significant works command the highest prices.
Tsukiji monseki — the site of the gateway area at Tsukiji, the famous foreign settlement and fish market district — is depicted in the 1893 "Famous Places in Tokyo" series. Tsukiji in the Meiji period was one of Tokyo's most complex districts: the area of the designated foreign settlement, the site of new Western-style buildings alongside traditional Japanese structures, a node of cultural contact and commercial activity that embodied the period's intense engagement with foreign influence. Shuntei's documentation of this district captures its specific architectural and social character.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Tsukiji monseki / Site of the Gateway, Tsukiji / Tokyo meisho zue / Famous Places in Tokyo was created by Miyagawa Shuntei (宮川春汀) in 1893 (1 September;printing; 5 September;published).
Tsukiji monseki / Site of the Gateway, Tsukiji / Tokyo meisho zue / Famous Places in Tokyo depicts urban scenes and architecture, set at Tokyo.
