Reinanzaka
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Art of Japan
Description
Reinanzaka — a slope in the Minato ward of Tokyo, near the Akasaka district — was a street of embassies and upscale residences in the Taisho and early Showa periods, its gentle hill and tree-lined character offering a visual experience very different from the flat working-class districts of downtown Tokyo. Henmi's rendering of this genteel slope demonstrates the range of his Tokyo documentary project, capturing the bourgeois and diplomatic districts as attentively as the harbors and markets.
More Prints by Henmi Takashi
More Urban Scenes Prints
A Hundred Shades of Ink of Edo: Kiyonaga's Pipe (Edo zumi hyaku shoku: Kiyonaga no kiseru)
Woodblock print
View of Kabuki Theater from Matsuya (Ginza Matsuya yori Kabukiza), no. 3 from the series "Pictures of Ginza, First Series (Gashu Ginza dai isshu)"
1928
Color lithograph
Distant View of Mitsukoshi Movie Theater in Shinjuku from the Sixth Floor of Hoteiya (Hoteiya rokkai kara Shinjuku Mitsukoshi Musashi no kan enbo zu), no. 1 from the series "Scenery of Shinjuku (Gashu Shinjuku fukei)"
1930
Color lithograph
Spring Dusk at the Tōshō Shrine in Ueno
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Reinanzaka was created by Henmi Takashi (逸見享).
Reinanzaka depicts urban scenes, landscapes, and trees.