St. Luke’s Hospital in Tsukiji,from the series Scenes After theTokyo Earthquake
- Series:
- Scenes After theTokyo Earthquake
- Date:
- 1925
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
$500–$8,000. Common later works: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: His enormous output (lived to 102) means most works are accessible. Early black-and-white prints are most valued.
St. Luke's Hospital in the Tsukiji district of Tokyo is rendered here as part of Hiratsuka's "Scenes After the Tokyo Earthquake" series — a body of work documenting the capital's landscape in the aftermath of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. The hospital building, which survived the earthquake and served as a relief center, is treated with a reverence usually reserved for temples. The 1925 color woodblock documents urban resilience as sacred architecture.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
St. Luke’s Hospital in Tsukiji,from the series Scenes After theTokyo Earthquake was created by Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一) in 1925.
Yes — St. Luke’s Hospital in Tsukiji,from the series Scenes After theTokyo Earthquake is part of the Scenes After theTokyo Earthquake series by Hiratsuka Un'ichi.
St. Luke’s Hospital in Tsukiji,from the series Scenes After theTokyo Earthquake depicts urban scenes.
