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 collaborative project to which Fukazawa Sakuichi (1896-1947) contributed alongside Onchi Koshiro, Hiratsuka Un'ichi, Maekawa Senpan, Kawakami Sumio, Suwa Kanenori, Henmi Takashi, Nakagawa Isaku, Fujimori Shizuo, and other Ichimoku-kai colleagues. Issued in subscription between 1928 and 1932 as a numbered edition of one hundred sheets distributed across the participating artists, 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, the residential suburbs, and the reconstructed monuments that had risen since the 1923 disaster. Fukazawa, a Tokyo-born sosaku-hanga modernist who worked across the prewar decades in a graphic vocabulary of flattened plane and reduced palette, contributed views in which architectural and atmospheric subject is treated as autonomous compositional motif rather than as topographical illustration. The series defined itself programmatically against the contemporary shin-hanga of Watanabe Shozaburo: each sheet was self-carved and self-printed by its artist rather than commissioned through the carver-printer division of labor, the editions were small, and the whole was distributed to subscribers rather than placed on the commercial print market. Fukazawa's contributions consolidate his place within the prewar sosaku-hanga movement, the network of artists organized around Onchi from the late 1920s that would form the postwar Ichimoku-kai under Onchi's leadership. Impressions of his Shin Tokyo hyakkei 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.
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Shin Tokyo hyakkei, the New One Hundred Views of Tokyo, is the landmark prewar sosaku-hanga collaborative project to which Fukazawa Sakuichi (1896-1947) contributed alongside Onchi Koshiro, Hiratsuka Un'ichi, Maekawa Senpan, Kawakami Sumio, Suwa Kanenori, Henmi Takashi, Nakagawa Isaku, Fujimori Shizuo, and other Ichimoku-kai colleagues. Issued in subscription between 1928 and 1932 as a numbered edition of one hundred sheets distributed across the participating artists, 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, the residential suburbs, and the reconstructed monuments that had risen since the 1923 disaster. Fukazawa, a Tokyo-born sosaku-hanga modernist who worked across the prewar decades in a graphic vocabulary of flattened plane and reduced palette, contributed views in which architectural and atmospheric subject is treated as autonomous compositional motif rather than as topographical illustration. The series defined itself programmatically against the contemporary shin-hanga of Watanabe Shozaburo: each sheet was self-carved and self-printed by its artist rather than commissioned through the carver-printer division of labor, the editions were small, and the whole was distributed to subscribers rather than placed on the commercial print market. Fukazawa's contributions consolidate his place within the prewar sosaku-hanga movement, the network of artists organized around Onchi from the late 1920s that would form the postwar Ichimoku-kai under Onchi's leadership. Impressions of his Shin Tokyo hyakkei 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.
The New One Hundred Views of Tokyo (Shin Tokyo hyakkei) series contains 1 prints, created by Sakuichi Fukazawa.
The New One Hundred Views of Tokyo (Shin Tokyo hyakkei) series was created by Sakuichi Fukazawa (深沢索一).
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