$200–$1,500. Common prints: $200–$500. Key value factors: Takahashi's prints are modestly priced. Quality examples with strong design are most valued.
A color woodblock print of Tokyo Tower from Takahashi's ambitious series "One Hundred Views of Tokyo: Message to the 21st Century," produced between 1989 and 1999. The series title deliberately echoes Hiroshige's famous "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo," updating the meisho tradition for the late twentieth century. Tokyo Tower, the red-and-white lattice structure completed in 1958, serves as the modern city's most recognizable vertical landmark and a fitting subject for a project that documents Tokyo at the millennium's edge. Takahashi renders the tower within its urban context, surrounded by the dense cityscape that had grown up around it over four decades. The "Message to the 21st Century" subtitle frames the series as a time capsule, preserving Tokyo's late-Showa and early-Heisei identity.
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.
Tokyo Tower (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century 東京百景 21世紀へのメッセジ) was created by Takahashi Rikio (高橋力雄) in 1989-99.
Tokyo Tower (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century 東京百景 21世紀へのメッセジ) depicts landscapes and architecture, set at Tokyo.
