Landscapes Prints (Gashu fukei hanga)
Gashu fukei hanga
About This Series
Landscapes Prints, given in Japanese as Gashu fukei hanga, is one of the picture-album projects that Oda Kazuma issued under broad descriptive titles rather than specifying a particular subject region, the format characteristic of the sosaku-hanga publication model in which a printmaker gathered a body of related work as a bound or portfolio album for collectors. The title fukei hanga, landscape prints, declares both genre and medium, asserting hanga as the natural vehicle for landscape observation in a manner consonant with the sosaku-hanga movement's argument that the printmaker should design, carve, and print his own work as a single creative act rather than rely on the collaborative division of labor that the shin-hanga workshops had inherited from nineteenth-century ukiyo-e. Oda, a founding member of the Nihon Sosaku-Hanga Kyokai in 1918 alongside Yamamoto Kanae, Ishii Hakutei, and others, was unusual among early sosaku-hanga figures in continuing to work with publishers and printers for some projects while preserving the artist-printmaker mode for others, and his various gashu albums sit on this hinge. The landscapes gathered under the Gashu fukei hanga title likely include both urban and regional subjects drawn from his sustained engagement with Tokyo, Osaka, the Kansai region more broadly, and the regional cities of the Japan Sea and Inland Sea coasts that he treated across the 1920s and 1930s. Oda's training as a lithographer at the Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko gave his landscape practice a graphic-design character distinct from the lyrical mode of his Watanabe contemporaries, favoring architectural silhouette, restrained palette, and crisp outline over atmospheric softness. The series belongs to the interwar flowering of sosaku-hanga publication, when artists' albums circulated through specialist booksellers and through the print-society subscriptions of the Kyokai and its successors. Impressions are preserved in the Osaka City Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Honolulu Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Prints in This Series (1)
Frequently Asked Questions
Landscapes Prints, given in Japanese as Gashu fukei hanga, is one of the picture-album projects that Oda Kazuma issued under broad descriptive titles rather than specifying a particular subject region, the format characteristic of the sosaku-hanga publication model in which a printmaker gathered a body of related work as a bound or portfolio album for collectors. The title fukei hanga, landscape prints, declares both genre and medium, asserting hanga as the natural vehicle for landscape observation in a manner consonant with the sosaku-hanga movement's argument that the printmaker should design, carve, and print his own work as a single creative act rather than rely on the collaborative division of labor that the shin-hanga workshops had inherited from nineteenth-century ukiyo-e. Oda, a founding member of the Nihon Sosaku-Hanga Kyokai in 1918 alongside Yamamoto Kanae, Ishii Hakutei, and others, was unusual among early sosaku-hanga figures in continuing to work with publishers and printers for some projects while preserving the artist-printmaker mode for others, and his various gashu albums sit on this hinge. The landscapes gathered under the Gashu fukei hanga title likely include both urban and regional subjects drawn from his sustained engagement with Tokyo, Osaka, the Kansai region more broadly, and the regional cities of the Japan Sea and Inland Sea coasts that he treated across the 1920s and 1930s. Oda's training as a lithographer at the Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko gave his landscape practice a graphic-design character distinct from the lyrical mode of his Watanabe contemporaries, favoring architectural silhouette, restrained palette, and crisp outline over atmospheric softness. The series belongs to the interwar flowering of sosaku-hanga publication, when artists' albums circulated through specialist booksellers and through the print-society subscriptions of the Kyokai and its successors. Impressions are preserved in the Osaka City Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Honolulu Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
The Landscapes Prints (Gashu fukei hanga) series contains 1 prints, created by Oda Kazuma.
The Landscapes Prints (Gashu fukei hanga) series was created by Oda Kazuma (織田一磨).
We currently have 1 of 1 known prints from the Landscapes Prints (Gashu fukei hanga) series indexed in our collection. Browse them all on this page.
Want to rate prints from Landscapes Prints (Gashu fukei hanga)?
Sign up to start rating