Day
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- japancoll
Description
A woodblock print titled simply "Day," evoking the quality of daylight itself as a subject rather than any particular scene or object. Takahashi frequently employed single-word titles that pointed toward atmosphere, sensation, or temporal experience rather than narrative content. The print likely works with warm tones and open spaces to convey the feeling of hours filled with light, the expansiveness of a day unfolding. This approach to titling and subject reflects his position within the sosaku-hanga tradition, where the artist functioned as sole creator, designing, carving, and printing each work, and was free to pursue subjective, even abstract themes without the commercial pressures that guided publisher-directed shin-hanga production.
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Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Day was created by Takahashi Rikio (高橋力雄).
Day depicts landscapes and abstract.