M6 Evening at Shinagawa
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
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 M6 shows an evening scene at Shinagawa on the southern waterfront of Edo and later Tokyo, the old post town at the start of the Tokaido road rendered in the atmospheric dimming light of dusk. The Shinagawa waterfront had a complex character: it was simultaneously the first stop on Japan's most traveled highway, a fishing harbor, a tea-house district, and the gateway at which the city's daily life connected to the larger world of Tokaido travel. Shotei captures the evening transition at this historically layered place.
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.
M6 Evening at Shinagawa was created by Takahashi Shotei (高橋松亭).
M6 Evening at Shinagawa was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
M6 Evening at Shinagawa depicts night scenes.
