Ginza Fantasy (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century 東京百景 21世紀へのメッセジ)
by Reika Iwami
by Reika Iwami
$1,000–$8,000. Common prints: $1,000–$2,500. Key value factors: Iwami Reika's luminous abstract prints are among the most sought-after by female Japanese printmakers. Her cosmic and water-inspired works command the highest prices.
Created between 1989 and 1999 for the collaborative One Hundred Views of Tokyo series subtitled Message to the 21st Century, Ginza Fantasy represents Iwami's interpretation of Tokyo's most famous commercial district. Rather than documenting Ginza's physical appearance through conventional landscape depiction, Iwami filters the neighborhood through her abstract visual language, translating the sensory experience of neon lights, reflective glass facades, and the energy of crowds into a composition that evokes rather than describes. The Ginza subject pushed Iwami beyond her characteristic water and horizon imagery into urban territory, requiring her to find equivalences between the rhythm of waves and the pulse of a commercial streetscape. The "Fantasy" in the title signals the departure from documentary representation toward an imaginative response to place.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Ginza Fantasy (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century 東京百景 21世紀へのメッセジ) was created by Reika Iwami (岩見禮花) in 1989-99.
Ginza Fantasy (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century 東京百景 21世紀へのメッセジ) depicts urban scenes and landscapes, set at Tokyo, Ginza.
