About This PrintThis print Tokyo Tower was published by the Japan Print Association (Nihon Hanga Kyokai) as part of the series OneHundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century. The Japan Print Association started this series in 1989 in which ten artists each year made scenes of Tokyo into a print. In 2000, they compiled ten volumes of the prints by all 100 artists. The Artist's Comments on This PrintSource: Tokyo Message to 21st Century: Tokyo Hyakkei (One Hundred Views of Tokyo) - The Fifty Prints of The First Half - 1989-1993, Japan Print Association, 1994, p. 44.
 #480 - Catalogue Raisonné (Rikio Takahashi, The Woodblock Prints, published by Abe Publishing LTD., 1998) The Series One Hundred Views of Tokyo: Message to the 21st CenturyThe series One Hundred Views of Tokyo: Message to the 21st Century (Tokyo Hyakkei niju-isseiki e no messeeji), was conceived and published by the Japan Print Association which was founded in 1931 by an amalgamation of print artists brought together by painter and print designer Okada Saburosuke (1869-1939). Throughout its history it has promoted its members work through domestic and international shows.1 In its preface to the first of two catalogs covering the 100 prints from 100 artists that comprise the series, the Association references past print series using Tokyo/Edo as their motif including series from the 1800s by Hiroshige and Hokusai and mid-20th century print series such as Shin Tokyo Hyakkei, undertaken by a group of eight artists in the late 1920s (including Onchi Kōshirō (1891-1955), Hiratsuka Un'ichi (1895-1997), Maekawa Senpan (1888-1960) and Kawakami Sumio (1895-1972)) and Koizumi Kishio's (1893-1945) long-running series (1928-1940) One Hundred Pictures of Great Tokyo During Showa, both of which depict the resurgence of Tokyo after the devastating 1923 Kanto Earthquake and fire. The Association goes on to say that their new Tokyo Hyakkei series will serve as "a witness of time" by the artists and will consist of "one hundred views by print by one hundred artists, which ultimately will take ten years in all [and] will present the changing international megalopolis Tokyo.... We are confident that [it] will achieve artistic and historical significance..."2 1 For more information visit the website of the Japan Print Association http://www.hangakyoukai.com/en/index.html 2 Tokyo Message to 21st Century: Tokyo Hyakkei (One Hundred Views of Tokyo) - The Fifty Prints of The First Half - 1989-1993,Japan Print Association, 1994, p. 5, 7. Tokyo TowerTokyoTower (東京タワー) is a tower in Shiba Park, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan (35°39′31″N, 139°44′44″E). It is 332.6 m (1091 ft) tall, making it oneof the world's highest self-supporting steel towers and the tallestman-made structure in Japan.The design of the tower is based onthe Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. Despite being 8.6 meters taller thanthe Eiffel Tower (32.6 if the latter's TV antenna is not included),Tokyo Tower only weighs about 4000 tons, whereas the Eiffel Towerweighs about 7300 tons. It is painted in white and internationalorange according to air safety regulations. From dusk to midnight, thetower is brilliantly illuminated in orange.  Print Details
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