Ueno Park
- Date:
- 1929
- 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.
Ueno Park — Tokyo's first public park, established in 1873 on the grounds of the former Kan'ei-ji temple — is rendered in Hiratsuka's 1929 color woodblock as a Taisho-era urban landscape. The park's cherry trees, museum buildings, and zoo made it the cultural center of the capital, and Hiratsuka's print captures this civic gathering place with the warm color palette of his early urban series.
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 Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一) in 1929.
Ueno Park depicts urban scenes, set at Ueno.
