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Village Landscape by Sumio Kawakami — Japanese Woodblock print

Village Landscape

by Sumio Kawakami

Sōsaku-hanga
LandscapesVillage Scenes
Medium:
Woodblock print
Edition:
Self-printed

Description

"Village Landscape" presents the visual character of a Japanese village settlement — the clustered rooflines, the human scale of the buildings, the integration of the village into its surrounding agricultural or forest landscape — through Kawakami's simplified, structurally clear compositional approach. Village landscapes were among the subjects that grounded his work in observed Japanese reality alongside his historical fantasies about Nagasaki traders and cross-cultural encounters: the ordinary Japan of small communities living close to the land and to each other.

More Prints by Sumio Kawakami

Title unknown [Flowers in a vase] by Sumio Kawakami

Title unknown [Flowers in a vase]

c. 1960

Woodblock print, ink and color on paper

Ginza at Night, from the series Recollections of Tokyo by Sumio Kawakami

Ginza at Night, from the series Recollections of Tokyo

1945

Color woodblock print

Night of Ginza by Sumio Kawakami

Night of Ginza

Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Chrysanthemums, Hibiya Park by Sumio Kawakami

Chrysanthemums, Hibiya Park

Woodblock print

More Landscapes Prints

Lake Kugushi in Wakasa Province (Wakasa Kugushiko), from the series Souvenirs of Travel I (Tabi miyage dai isshu)" by Kawase Hasui

Lake Kugushi in Wakasa Province (Wakasa Kugushiko), from the series Souvenirs of Travel I (Tabi miyage dai isshu)"

Wakasa Kugushiko

1920

Color woodblock print; oban

Autumn Maple Leaves at Takao, from the album Eight Views of Kyoto (Kyôto hakkei) by Insho Domoto

Autumn Maple Leaves at Takao, from the album Eight Views of Kyoto (Kyôto hakkei)

Woodblock print

The Beach at Kaiganji in Sanuki Province (Sanuki Kaiganji no hama), from the series "Collection of Views of Japan II, Kansai Edition (Nihon fukei shu II Kansai hen)" by Kawase Hasui

The Beach at Kaiganji in Sanuki Province (Sanuki Kaiganji no hama), from the series "Collection of Views of Japan II, Kansai Edition (Nihon fukei shu II Kansai hen)"

1934

Color woodblock print; oban

Tea Kettle, section of a sheet from the series "Mirror of Stone Rubbings of Views of the Provinces" (Kohon meihitsu ishizuri kagami) by Utagawa Hiroshige

Tea Kettle, section of a sheet from the series "Mirror of Stone Rubbings of Views of the Provinces" (Kohon meihitsu ishizuri kagami)

n.d.

Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet

Featured in Collections

Curated cross-cuts that include this print.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Village Landscape was created by Sumio Kawakami (川上澄生).

Village Landscape depicts landscapes and village scenes.