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.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Vicinity of Aizu (B) was created by Saito Kiyoshi (斎藤清).
Vicinity of Aizu (B) depicts landscapes, mountains, and village scenes.
