About This Print
In this print Ōuchi appropriates Utagawa Hiroshige's 1856 print Kinryusan Temple at Asakusa from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, to create this large format etching.
In speaking about Ōuchi's appropriation of images from famous ukiyo-e artists, the Tolmans wrote in 1982: "Ōuchi uses them to evoke the past, but it is his originality that makes them contemporary. First of all, they are not photographs but are completely redrawn by the artist, as he sees them. Secondly, he is not using a woodblock, but portrays them through the etching process in warm, soft colors - rusts, browns, gold - that give them an added poignancy."1
Hiroshige, Kinryusan Temple at Asakusa, 1856
from the series
One Hundred Views of Edo.
from the series
One Hundred Views of Edo.
1 People Who Make Japanese Prints, A Personal Glimpse, Mary S. and Norman H. Tolman, Sobunsha, 1982, p. 116-117.
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #1085 |
| Title | Asakusa (浅草) |
| Artist | Ōuchi Makoto (1926-1989) |
| Signature | Ōuchi M (in pencil) and 大内(Ouchi) in image |
| Seal of the Artist |  |
| Publication Date | c. 1980s (not dated) |
| Edition | 5 of 100 |
| Publisher | self-published |
| Printer | self-printed |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | excellent - very minor mat burn |
| Genre | contemporary |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Format | |
| H x W Paper | 24 5/8 x 19 in. (62.5 x 48.3 cm) |
| H x W Image | 21 1/2 x 15 3/4 in. (54.6 x 40 cm) Area of Etching Plate |
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| Reference Literature |
5/23/2021
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