Hibiya Park and City Hall
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Art of Japan
Description
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.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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.