One Hundred Views of New Tokyo
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Fujimori Shizuo's contributions to One Hundred Views of New Tokyo (Shin Tokyo hyakkei) belong to the celebrated 1928-1932 collaborative project in which eight sosaku-hanga artists, working under the editorial guidance of Onchi Koshiro and the publisher Nakajima Jutaro, gathered one hundred views of the post-earthquake metropolis into a coordinated cycle of self-carved and self-printed woodblocks. The Great Kanto Earthquake of September 1923 had destroyed much of the older city, and the subsequent reconstruction program produced a fundamentally new urban landscape of broadened avenues, concrete-and-steel architecture, modern infrastructure, and reorganized districts that became the principal subject of late-Taisho and early-Showa cityscape practice. The Shin Tokyo hyakkei was conceived as the sosaku-hanga response to that transformation, and its eight participating artists — Onchi Koshiro, Hiratsuka Un'ichi, Maekawa Senpan, Fukazawa Sakuichi, Suwa Kanenori, Henmi Takashi, Kawakami Sumio, and Fujimori Shizuo — divided the hundred views among themselves, each contributing a body of plates in his own distinct print idiom. Fujimori Shizuo (1891-1943) had been a founding member of the Sosaku-Hanga Kyokai (Creative Print Society) in 1918 and had cofounded the influential Tsukuhae magazine in 1914 with Onchi Koshiro and Tanaka Kyokichi, and his contributions to the Shin Tokyo cycle register the modern city in the sober graphic register characteristic of his mature practice, with firm contour and reduced palette and a documentary attention to industrial and infrastructural detail. The project was issued in installments through the Nakajima publishing house and gathered into a complete bound portfolio by 1932, and impressions are catalogued in the Art Institute of Chicago, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the British Museum, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Edo-Tokyo Museum, where the project figures as one of the central sosaku-hanga statements of the late-Taisho and early-Showa moment.
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Fujimori Shizuo's contributions to One Hundred Views of New Tokyo (Shin Tokyo hyakkei) belong to the celebrated 1928-1932 collaborative project in which eight sosaku-hanga artists, working under the editorial guidance of Onchi Koshiro and the publisher Nakajima Jutaro, gathered one hundred views of the post-earthquake metropolis into a coordinated cycle of self-carved and self-printed woodblocks. The Great Kanto Earthquake of September 1923 had destroyed much of the older city, and the subsequent reconstruction program produced a fundamentally new urban landscape of broadened avenues, concrete-and-steel architecture, modern infrastructure, and reorganized districts that became the principal subject of late-Taisho and early-Showa cityscape practice. The Shin Tokyo hyakkei was conceived as the sosaku-hanga response to that transformation, and its eight participating artists — Onchi Koshiro, Hiratsuka Un'ichi, Maekawa Senpan, Fukazawa Sakuichi, Suwa Kanenori, Henmi Takashi, Kawakami Sumio, and Fujimori Shizuo — divided the hundred views among themselves, each contributing a body of plates in his own distinct print idiom. Fujimori Shizuo (1891-1943) had been a founding member of the Sosaku-Hanga Kyokai (Creative Print Society) in 1918 and had cofounded the influential Tsukuhae magazine in 1914 with Onchi Koshiro and Tanaka Kyokichi, and his contributions to the Shin Tokyo cycle register the modern city in the sober graphic register characteristic of his mature practice, with firm contour and reduced palette and a documentary attention to industrial and infrastructural detail. The project was issued in installments through the Nakajima publishing house and gathered into a complete bound portfolio by 1932, and impressions are catalogued in the Art Institute of Chicago, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the British Museum, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Edo-Tokyo Museum, where the project figures as one of the central sosaku-hanga statements of the late-Taisho and early-Showa moment.
The One Hundred Views of New Tokyo series contains 4 prints, created by Fujimori Shizuo.
The One Hundred Views of New Tokyo series was created by Fujimori Shizuo (藤森静雄).
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