$1,000–$15,000. Common landscapes: $1,000–$3,000. Key value factors: Kasamatsu's early shin-hanga works (pre-1955) tend to be more valued than his later sosaku-hanga production.
The Western-style Hibiya Park unfolds in the foreground while Tokyo's City Hall — then a neo-Renaissance civic landmark — anchors the middle distance. Kasamatsu depicts this corner of modernizing Tokyo during the interwar period, when Western architecture sat in strange proximity to traditional urban forms. The composition reflects his sustained interest in the layered modernity of early Showa Tokyo, where foreign architectural idioms had taken root without fully displacing Japanese spatial sensibilities.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Hibiya Park and City Hall was created by Shiro Kasamatsu (笠松紫浪).
Hibiya Park and City Hall was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
Hibiya Park and City Hall depicts urban scenes and architecture.
