Forty-Eight Famous Views of Tokyo: Tsukiji Hotel
東京名所四十八景 築地ホテル
by Shōsai Ikkei
- Date:
- c. 1871
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
- Source:
- Edo-Tokyo Museum
東京名所四十八景 築地ホテル
by Shōsai Ikkei
This view of the Tsukiji Hotel, from Ikkei's 'Forty-Eight Famous Views of Tokyo' series of around 1871, depicts one of the new Meiji-era foreign buildings that became almost obligatory subjects in the topographic print series of the early 1870s. The Tsukiji Hoteru-kan, designed by the American architect Richard Bridgens and built by the Japanese contractor Shimizu Kisuke II, had opened in 1868 in the foreign settlement at Tsukiji as the principal Western-style hotel of the new capital — a two-story wooden building with a central tower and verandas, executed in a somewhat eclectic Western style that became one of the most recognizable images of bunmei-kaika ('civilization and enlightenment'), the slogan under which the Meiji government promoted Western institutions and architecture. The building burned down in 1872 in the Great Fire of Ginza, which makes Ikkei's print one of the small but historically valuable group of contemporary depictions of the structure during its brief existence. The composition emphasizes the building's flag-flying tower and its foreign-style railings and verandas, with Japanese and Western figures arranged around the entrance. The print is held by the Edo-Tokyo Museum.
東京名所四十八景 洲崎乃汐干
c. 1871
Color woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
錦絵三枚続
c. 1870
Color woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
東京名所四十八景 愛宕やま
c. 1871
Color woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
東京名所四十八景 両国乃花火
c. 1871
Color woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
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.
Forty-Eight Famous Views of Tokyo: Tsukiji Hotel (東京名所四十八景 築地ホテル) was created by Shōsai Ikkei (昇斎一景) in c. 1871.
Forty-Eight Famous Views of Tokyo: Tsukiji Hotel depicts landscapes.