Vicinity of Aizu (B)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Description
Vicinity of Aizu (B)—the second in what appears to have been a paired set of Aizu landscapes—shows Saito widening his view from the farmhouse close-up to include the broader landscape surrounding his home region. The vicinity rather than the town itself suggests the agricultural periphery: rice paddies, irrigation channels, the line of mountains behind, the flatness of the river basin before the peaks rise. These wider compositions gave his reductive approach a different formal challenge than the architectural close-ups.
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Tea Kettle, section of a sheet from the series "Mirror of Stone Rubbings of Views of the Provinces" (Kohon meihitsu ishizuri kagami)
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Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Vicinity of Aizu (B) was created by Saito Kiyoshi (斎藤清).
Vicinity of Aizu (B) depicts landscapes, mountains, and village scenes.