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Bruges at Dawn by Yoshijiro Urushibara — Japanese Color woodcut, 1919

Bruges at Dawn

by Yoshijiro Urushibara

Shin-hanga
Night Scenes
Date:
1919
Medium:
Color woodcut
Image courtesy of
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Description

A wooden hoist with hanging chains and a tall ladder rise from a cluttered barge in the foreground, its deck piled with baskets, boxes, and a heaped tarpaulin rendered in dark, heavy outlines. Beyond the water, a row of stepped and gabled Flemish townhouses recedes in pale grey-blue and cream tones, their forms softened and doubled by reflection in the canal. The high-contrast palette—muted, near-monochrome blues and greys against black linework—gives the harbor scene a quiet, hazy stillness. (Yoshijiro Urushibara, "Bruges at Dawn," 1919, color woodcut.)

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Frequently Asked Questions

Bruges at Dawn was created by Yoshijiro Urushibara (漆原木虫) in 1919.

Bruges at Dawn depicts night scenes.