Tokyo fûkei hangashû
About This Series
Tokyo fukei hangashu, the Collection of Tokyo Landscape Prints, is one of the principal album-format titles under which Oda Kazuma issued his Tokyo cityscape work, the hangashu designation declaring the bound-album mode that distinguished his publication practice from the loose-sheet commercial production of the Watanabe Shozaburo workshop. The hangashu format, an artist's album of related prints gathered into a single portfolio or bound volume for collectors and subscribers, was characteristic of the sosaku-hanga publication model in which the printmaker took responsibility for the conception, design, and presentation of his work as an integrated project. Oda, a founding member of the Nihon Sosaku-Hanga Kyokai in 1918 and one of the early-Showa printmakers most attentive to the album as a publication format, used the hangashu designation across his Tokyo, Osaka, and regional cityscape projects of the 1920s and 1930s, and the Tokyo fukei hangashu belongs to this systematic engagement with the city. The album likely gathers a roster of districts, bridges, streetcar intersections, and modern landmarks observed in the documentary mode characteristic of his cityscape practice, attentive to telephone poles, steel-frame construction, the geometry of rails and tramlines, and the upper-floor vantage points that the new department stores and office buildings had made available to the urban observer. Oda's training as a lithographer at the Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko gave his Tokyo work a graphic-design character distinct from the atmospheric mode of his Watanabe contemporaries, favoring architectural silhouette, crisp outline, and restrained palette. The series belongs to the period of Oda's most sustained urban production, the interwar decades during which he moved between Osaka and Tokyo and treated both cities as subjects worthy of serial pictorial documentation. Impressions are preserved in the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Honolulu Museum of Art, and the Osaka City Museum of Modern Art, whose Oda holdings document the artist's career on both sides of the Tokyo-Osaka axis.
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Tokyo fukei hangashu, the Collection of Tokyo Landscape Prints, is one of the principal album-format titles under which Oda Kazuma issued his Tokyo cityscape work, the hangashu designation declaring the bound-album mode that distinguished his publication practice from the loose-sheet commercial production of the Watanabe Shozaburo workshop. The hangashu format, an artist's album of related prints gathered into a single portfolio or bound volume for collectors and subscribers, was characteristic of the sosaku-hanga publication model in which the printmaker took responsibility for the conception, design, and presentation of his work as an integrated project. Oda, a founding member of the Nihon Sosaku-Hanga Kyokai in 1918 and one of the early-Showa printmakers most attentive to the album as a publication format, used the hangashu designation across his Tokyo, Osaka, and regional cityscape projects of the 1920s and 1930s, and the Tokyo fukei hangashu belongs to this systematic engagement with the city. The album likely gathers a roster of districts, bridges, streetcar intersections, and modern landmarks observed in the documentary mode characteristic of his cityscape practice, attentive to telephone poles, steel-frame construction, the geometry of rails and tramlines, and the upper-floor vantage points that the new department stores and office buildings had made available to the urban observer. Oda's training as a lithographer at the Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko gave his Tokyo work a graphic-design character distinct from the atmospheric mode of his Watanabe contemporaries, favoring architectural silhouette, crisp outline, and restrained palette. The series belongs to the period of Oda's most sustained urban production, the interwar decades during which he moved between Osaka and Tokyo and treated both cities as subjects worthy of serial pictorial documentation. Impressions are preserved in the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Honolulu Museum of Art, and the Osaka City Museum of Modern Art, whose Oda holdings document the artist's career on both sides of the Tokyo-Osaka axis.
The Tokyo fûkei hangashû series contains 1 prints, created by Oda Kazuma.
The Tokyo fûkei hangashû series was created by Oda Kazuma (織田一磨).
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