One Hundred Pictures of Great Tokyo in the Showa Era

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Artist Koizumi Kishio(Japanese, 1893–1945)Japanese, 1893–1945

CultureJapanese

Titles

One Hundred Pictures of Great Tokyo in the Showa Era

Date1928–1940

MediumSet of 100 woodblock prints

DimensionsSheet (each): 15 1/2 × 11 3/4 in. (39.4 × 29.8 cm)
Storage box: 5 1/2 × 21 1/2 × 17 1/8 in. (14 × 54.6 × 43.5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment

Object number2024.1596.1-.100

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Asian Art

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ProvenancePrivate Japanese Collection, before 2023; [Abe Japanese Art, Tokyo, by 2023]; [Scholten Japanese Art, New York, 2023]; purchased by MFAH, 2024.

Exhibition HistoryN/A
Published References The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Catalogue of Collections: Prints, 1993, p. 133, no. 1239 James T. Ulak, Tokyo Modern-II, Koizumi Kishio's 1940 Annotations on "100 Views of Great Tokyo in the Showa Era," Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visualizing Cultures (visualizingcultures.mit.edu), 2009 Chris Uhlenbeck, Amy Reigle Newland and Maureen de Vries, Waves of Renewal: Modern Japanese Prints, 1900-1960, Selection from the Nihon no hanga Collection, 2016, p. 236, no. 184 The Wolfsonian-Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection, no. TD1993.69.1.82, TD1993.69.1.81 (inv. no. 10-5775) Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

The outer box lid is titled on the top of the lid in brushed sumi ink: 昭和大東京百図絵版書集(Showa dai Tokyo hyakuzue hanga-shu) “(A collection of) 100 Views of Great Tokyo in the Show Era".
The inside lid is dated in brushed sumi ink: (Koki nissen-roppyaku-nen kansei) "Imperial Era 2600"
The inside lid is signed in brushed sumi ink: (Koizumi Kishio) with the artist's red seal (Kishio-in)

Each print is inscribed in pencil with the date of production and artist’s signature.

Each print bears an artist’s seal and signature. Note that these vary significantly throughout the set as the artist changed seals (as they were worn out or simply due to style) as well as styles of signature. On a few occasions, such as during 1936, he also added the date to his signature. Each print also bears a title (usually at upper-left) along with a pre-printed date along one margin, with spaces left for the artist to pencil in the specific month and year of publication.

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