One Hundred Views of New Tokyo (Shin Tokyo hyakkei)
Shin Tokyo hyakkei
About This Series
Shin Tokyo hyakkei, the One Hundred Views of New Tokyo, is one of the central cooperative achievements of the prewar sosaku-hanga movement, a hundred-print suite undertaken between 1928 and 1932 by eight printmakers of the Nihon Sosaku-Hanga Kyokai and its associated circles to document the reconstructed and modernized capital that had risen from the ruins of the 1923 Kanto Earthquake. Hiratsuka Un'ichi (1895-1997), already established as one of the senior figures of the movement and the leading proponent of jiga jikoku jizuri, the doctrine of self-drawn, self-carved, and self-printed woodblock, contributed sheets to the project alongside Onchi Koshiro, Maekawa Senpan, Henmi Takashi, Fujimori Shizuo, Suwa Kanenori, Kawakami Sumio, and Fukazawa Sakuichi, with each artist responsible for a portion of the hundred subjects and for the personal cutting and printing of their own blocks. The series was issued by the Nihon Fukei Hanga Kai under the editorial direction of Onchi and represents the sosaku-hanga reform of the centuries-old hyakkei or hundred-view format, the same convention that had structured Hiroshige's nineteenth-century Edo views, but here remade by artists who insisted on personal authorship of every stage of the print. Hiratsuka's contributions are executed in his signature black-and-white sumizuri-e idiom, printed in carbon sumi on washi from cherry blocks cut directly without preparatory transfer, and treat subjects including modern transportation infrastructure, recovered temple precincts, and the streetscapes of the new urban core. The Shin Tokyo hyakkei project is documented as a complete series in the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Tokyo National Museum, and the Hiratsuka Un'ichi Print Museum in Suzaka.
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Shin Tokyo hyakkei, the One Hundred Views of New Tokyo, is one of the central cooperative achievements of the prewar sosaku-hanga movement, a hundred-print suite undertaken between 1928 and 1932 by eight printmakers of the Nihon Sosaku-Hanga Kyokai and its associated circles to document the reconstructed and modernized capital that had risen from the ruins of the 1923 Kanto Earthquake. Hiratsuka Un'ichi (1895-1997), already established as one of the senior figures of the movement and the leading proponent of jiga jikoku jizuri, the doctrine of self-drawn, self-carved, and self-printed woodblock, contributed sheets to the project alongside Onchi Koshiro, Maekawa Senpan, Henmi Takashi, Fujimori Shizuo, Suwa Kanenori, Kawakami Sumio, and Fukazawa Sakuichi, with each artist responsible for a portion of the hundred subjects and for the personal cutting and printing of their own blocks. The series was issued by the Nihon Fukei Hanga Kai under the editorial direction of Onchi and represents the sosaku-hanga reform of the centuries-old hyakkei or hundred-view format, the same convention that had structured Hiroshige's nineteenth-century Edo views, but here remade by artists who insisted on personal authorship of every stage of the print. Hiratsuka's contributions are executed in his signature black-and-white sumizuri-e idiom, printed in carbon sumi on washi from cherry blocks cut directly without preparatory transfer, and treat subjects including modern transportation infrastructure, recovered temple precincts, and the streetscapes of the new urban core. The Shin Tokyo hyakkei project is documented as a complete series in the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Tokyo National Museum, and the Hiratsuka Un'ichi Print Museum in Suzaka.
The One Hundred Views of New Tokyo (Shin Tokyo hyakkei) series contains 1 prints, created by Hiratsuka Un'ichi.
The One Hundred Views of New Tokyo (Shin Tokyo hyakkei) series was created by Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一).
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