Ferry at Odai, Tokyo
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- japancoll
Key value factors: As self-carved and self-printed works, sosaku-hanga value is tied to the artist's reputation and edition size. Larger formats, earlier editions, and historically significant works command the highest prices.
A ferry crossing the Odai in Tokyo — the broad Sumida River district where flat-bottomed ferries once provided essential transport across a city defined by its waterways. Before bridges made the ferries redundant, these crossings were central to daily life for Tokyoites, and Henmi's documentation of them in One Hundred New Views of Tokyo gives them the weight of historical record. The Odai ferry depicts not just a mode of transport but a way of urban life that was already passing.
Woodblock print
Hansen, yoru
1926
Color woodblock print
1915
Color woodblock print
Hansen, asa
1926
Color woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Ferry at Odai, Tokyo was created by Henmi Takashi (逸見享).
Ferry at Odai, Tokyo depicts boats & ships, set at Tokyo.
