About This Print
A peaceful Sakurajima, an active volcano, on a summer's day as seen from one of the villages that were gradually incorporated into Kagoshima city. Kagoshima is a city of over 600,000 today.
Other Artist's Views of The Volcano
 from the series Selection of Scenes from Japan Kawase Hasui |  Kageshima, Kyushu, c. 1935-42 Toshiro Maeda |
 Hideo Nishiyama |  Sekino Jun'ichirô Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon 2011:17.15 |
Sakurajima Today
Source: Kagoshima Prefectural Visitor Bureau http://www.kagoshima-kankou.com/for/areaguides/sakurajima.html
Kagoshima's symbolic Sakurajima is a volcanic island, which floats in the sea only 4km from South Kyushu's hub city, Kagoshima. It is one of the world's greatest active volcanoes at 1,117 meters tall and 50km round. The volcano, which appeared on the south rim of Aira Caldera, is a stratovolcano consisting of two peaks, the North Peak and the South Peak, and has been repeating major eruptions. Among them, in a major eruption in 1914, lava filled a 400-meter wide strait causing the island to connect with Osumi Peninsula on the opposite shore. Approximately 10 billion tons of lava, a volume without parallel in the world, flowed out. There is an observatory with a view of the summit midway up the mountain where you can feel the power of the active volcano spewing smoke up close.
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #928 |
| Title or Description | Sakurajima in Summer 夏の桜島 九州鹿児島(as titled by The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo) |
| Artist | Akagi Yasunobu (1889-1955) |
| Signature | none |
| Seal |  |
| Publication Date | 1940 |
| Publisher | self-published |
| Carver | self-carved |
| Printer | self-printed |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | excellent - tipped to original folder with original label |
| Genre | sosaku-hanga (creative print) |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Format | chuban |
| H x W Paper | 6 1/2 x 9 1/8 in. (16.5 x 23.2 cm) |
| H x W Image | 5 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. (14.6 x 19.7 cm) |
| Reference Literature | |
| Collections This Print | The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo P00905 |
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