Ueno Park
- Date:
- 1926
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
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.
Ueno Park — the great public park in northern Tokyo that contains not only cherry trees and museums but the Shinobazu Pond and the Ueno Zoo — is depicted in this 1926 print. Henmi was one of the co-creators of One Hundred New Views of Tokyo, the landmark series that mapped the modern city through [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) prints, and his Ueno compositions sit within that larger project of documenting Tokyo as a living, changing urban landscape. The park was a democratic space where all classes of Tokyoites gathered.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Ueno Park was created by Henmi Takashi (逸見享) in 1926.
Ueno Park depicts urban scenes, set at Ueno.
