Street, road, village
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
The unrecorded street subject—a road passing through a village, flanked by low-roofed houses and perhaps a few trees—represents the kind of ordinary Japanese landscape that Saito treated as seriously as his temple gardens. Rural roads, their surfaces of packed earth or loose gravel, the way they compressed between buildings before opening again into paddies, were part of the visual texture of traditional Japan that the postwar period was rapidly transforming. His documentation carries an elegiac charge.
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Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Street, road, village was created by Saito Kiyoshi (斎藤清).
Street, road, village depicts urban scenes, travel scenes, and village scenes.