C17- Night Scene at Itako
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
Shotei produced a wide range of subjects throughout his career under publishers Watanabe and Daikokuya. Signed, sealed lifetime editions consistently outperform unsigned export-market copies.
Catalog number C17 shows Itako — a canal town in Ibaraki Prefecture known for its iris gardens and flat waterway landscape — at night, the canal reflecting the lights of buildings along its banks while the flat fen country extends into darkness. Itako's grid of channels and low-slung wooden bridges made it one of the most distinctive small-town landscapes near Tokyo, and Shotei renders it at the hour when the water becomes a mirror for artificial light. The night treatment amplifies the sense of stillness and isolation that the canal town possessed.
Woodblock print
Teradomari no yau
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
![Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)" by Kawase Hasui](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d0960668-1e73-339a-b182-fb995a54bff0/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
1947
Color woodblock print; oban
March 1933
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
C17- Night Scene at Itako was created by Takahashi Shotei (高橋松亭).
C17- Night Scene at Itako uses Bokashi, on woodblock print.
C17- Night Scene at Itako was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
C17- Night Scene at Itako depicts night scenes.
