One Hundred Views of New Japan
About This Series
One Hundred Views of New Japan, in Japanese Shin Nihon hyakkei, is a collaborative hyakkei-format print project in which a group of sosaku-hanga artists extended the prewar Shin Tokyo hyakkei model to embrace the wider national landscape, treating provincial cities, coastal towns, mountain scenery, and the agricultural countryside in the self-carved, self-printed modernist idiom that the movement had established for itself. Nakagawa Isaku (1899-?), a Tokyo sosaku-hanga modernist who had been a principal contributor to the earlier Shin Tokyo hyakkei of 1928 to 1932 alongside Onchi Koshiro, Hiratsuka Un'ichi, Maekawa Senpan, Fukazawa Sakuichi, Kawakami Sumio, and other Ichimoku-kai colleagues, contributed views to the Shin Nihon hyakkei in his characteristic vocabulary of flattened plane, broadly massed unmodulated color, and reduced contour, applying the modernist hyakkei approach he had helped develop in the prewar project to a broader national subject. As with the earlier series, each sheet was self-carved and self-printed by its artist, the editions were small, and the whole was distributed to subscribers in the artisanal manner that the sosaku-hanga movement had established for itself in contradistinction to the carver-printer commercial publishing of the contemporary shin-hanga of Watanabe Shozaburo. The Shin Nihon hyakkei project belongs to the immediate prewar and wartime years in which the Ichimoku-kai consolidated its identity as a self-publishing artists' collective, and Nakagawa's contributions consolidate his place within this network of modernist printmakers. Impressions of his sheets are preserved in the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Honolulu Museum of Art among other principal collections of twentieth-century Japanese print.
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One Hundred Views of New Japan, in Japanese Shin Nihon hyakkei, is a collaborative hyakkei-format print project in which a group of sosaku-hanga artists extended the prewar Shin Tokyo hyakkei model to embrace the wider national landscape, treating provincial cities, coastal towns, mountain scenery, and the agricultural countryside in the self-carved, self-printed modernist idiom that the movement had established for itself. Nakagawa Isaku (1899-?), a Tokyo sosaku-hanga modernist who had been a principal contributor to the earlier Shin Tokyo hyakkei of 1928 to 1932 alongside Onchi Koshiro, Hiratsuka Un'ichi, Maekawa Senpan, Fukazawa Sakuichi, Kawakami Sumio, and other Ichimoku-kai colleagues, contributed views to the Shin Nihon hyakkei in his characteristic vocabulary of flattened plane, broadly massed unmodulated color, and reduced contour, applying the modernist hyakkei approach he had helped develop in the prewar project to a broader national subject. As with the earlier series, each sheet was self-carved and self-printed by its artist, the editions were small, and the whole was distributed to subscribers in the artisanal manner that the sosaku-hanga movement had established for itself in contradistinction to the carver-printer commercial publishing of the contemporary shin-hanga of Watanabe Shozaburo. The Shin Nihon hyakkei project belongs to the immediate prewar and wartime years in which the Ichimoku-kai consolidated its identity as a self-publishing artists' collective, and Nakagawa's contributions consolidate his place within this network of modernist printmakers. Impressions of his sheets are preserved in the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Honolulu Museum of Art among other principal collections of twentieth-century Japanese print.
The One Hundred Views of New Japan series contains 1 prints, created by Nakagawa Isaku.
The One Hundred Views of New Japan series was created by Nakagawa Isaku (中川伊作).
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