A House in the City (Machi no ie), from the series "Manchuria (Manshu)"
- Series:
- Manchuria (Manshu)
- Date:
- 1944 (printed c. 1950 from recut block?)
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print; oban
- Format:
- Oban
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
$500–$5,000. Common mountain prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Azechi's cheerful mountain prints have consistent demand. Larger and more complex compositions are most valued.
The 1945 House in the City from the Manchuria series documents Azechi's wartime experience in the occupied territories of northeastern China, where he served and observed life in a landscape dramatically different from the Japanese Alps he would later celebrate. The Manchurian city street—its architecture a layered hybrid of Chinese, Russian, and Japanese colonial influences—appears in his bold flat style as a subject of sociological observation rather than scenic pleasure, the occupied city's ordinariness more interesting to him than its geopolitical drama.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
A House in the City (Machi no ie), from the series "Manchuria (Manshu)" was created by Umetaro Azechi (畦地梅太郎) in 1944 (printed c. 1950 from recut block?).
Yes — A House in the City (Machi no ie), from the series "Manchuria (Manshu)" is part of the Manchuria (Manshu) series by Umetaro Azechi.
A House in the City (Machi no ie), from the series "Manchuria (Manshu)" depicts urban scenes.
