New One Hundred Views of Tokyo (Shin Tokyo hyakkei)
Shin Tokyo hyakkei
About This Series
Shin Tokyo hyakkei, the New One Hundred Views of Tokyo, is the landmark prewar sosaku-hanga project that Onchi Koshiro (1891-1955) co-organized and contributed to between 1928 and 1932, the most ambitious self-published series of the prewar movement and the principal document of its renewal of the hundred-views topographical tradition. Issued in subscription as a numbered edition of one hundred sheets by an editorial collective in which Onchi, Hiratsuka Un'ichi, Maekawa Senpan, Fukazawa Sakuichi, Kawakami Sumio, Suwa Kanenori, Henmi Takashi, Nakagawa Isaku, Fujimori Shizuo, and other sosaku-hanga colleagues each contributed multiple views, the series gathered Tokyo in the moment of its post-earthquake reconstruction, registering the new steel and concrete bridges, the elevated railways, the godowns and tramlines, and the residential suburbs that had risen since the 1923 disaster. As principal organizer Onchi defined the project's character as a modernist hyakkei in which each artist's sheets were self-carved and self-printed, issued without the carver-printer division of labor characteristic of the contemporary shin-hanga movement of Watanabe Shozaburo, and intended for circulation among collectors and fellow artists rather than the commercial print market. His own contributions to the series, which include several of its most accomplished sheets, consolidated his mature sosaku-hanga vocabulary in which architectural and atmospheric subject is reduced to rhythmically organized field of unmodulated color. Impressions of the series 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 major institutional holdings of twentieth-century Japanese print.
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Shin Tokyo hyakkei, the New One Hundred Views of Tokyo, is the landmark prewar sosaku-hanga project that Onchi Koshiro (1891-1955) co-organized and contributed to between 1928 and 1932, the most ambitious self-published series of the prewar movement and the principal document of its renewal of the hundred-views topographical tradition. Issued in subscription as a numbered edition of one hundred sheets by an editorial collective in which Onchi, Hiratsuka Un'ichi, Maekawa Senpan, Fukazawa Sakuichi, Kawakami Sumio, Suwa Kanenori, Henmi Takashi, Nakagawa Isaku, Fujimori Shizuo, and other sosaku-hanga colleagues each contributed multiple views, the series gathered Tokyo in the moment of its post-earthquake reconstruction, registering the new steel and concrete bridges, the elevated railways, the godowns and tramlines, and the residential suburbs that had risen since the 1923 disaster. As principal organizer Onchi defined the project's character as a modernist hyakkei in which each artist's sheets were self-carved and self-printed, issued without the carver-printer division of labor characteristic of the contemporary shin-hanga movement of Watanabe Shozaburo, and intended for circulation among collectors and fellow artists rather than the commercial print market. His own contributions to the series, which include several of its most accomplished sheets, consolidated his mature sosaku-hanga vocabulary in which architectural and atmospheric subject is reduced to rhythmically organized field of unmodulated color. Impressions of the series 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 major institutional holdings of twentieth-century Japanese print.
The New One Hundred Views of Tokyo (Shin Tokyo hyakkei) series contains 1 prints, created by Onchi Koshiro.
The New One Hundred Views of Tokyo (Shin Tokyo hyakkei) series was created by Onchi Koshiro (恩地孝四郎).
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