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Sunset at Matsue Castle, Shimane Prefecture by Hiratsuka Un'ichi — Japanese Woodblock print, 1942

Sunset at Matsue Castle, Shimane Prefecture

by Hiratsuka Un'ichi

Date:
1942
Medium:
Woodblock print
Edition:
Self-printed

Description

A monochrome woodblock print rendered almost entirely in bold black linework on cream paper, depicting a rural landscape with a small castle nestled among trees on the middle horizon and rolling hills to the left. In the foreground, furrowed rice fields stretch diagonally across the composition, dotted with small silhouetted figures bent in cultivation, while a dense cluster of tall, feathery trees fills the right side of the frame; two simple curved lines of cloud float in the otherwise blank sky above. A small red seal mark appears near the lower right, with the artist's pencil signature and the date "1942" inscribed below the image along the bottom margin.

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Sunset at Matsue Castle, Shimane Prefecture was created by Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一) in 1942.

Sunset at Matsue Castle, Shimane Prefecture depicts castles and night scenes.