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Maker(s):Maekawa Senpan
Culture:Japanese (1896-1946)
Title:The Battery at Suijo Park (Mizukami Koen daiba) from 'One Hundred Views of Modern Tokyo: Sosaku hanga (Shin Tokyo Hyakkei: sosaku hanga), third set, no.7
Date Made:August 23, 1930 (Showa 5)
Type:Print
Materials:woodblock print
Measurements:Sheet: 7 7/8 in x 10 1/2 in; 20.0025 cm x 26.67 cm
Accession Number:  AC 2008.60
Credit Line:Purchase with Wise Fund for Fine Arts
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Label Text:
In response to the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry’s black ships in 1854, the Tokugawa government created seven gun emplacements at the head of Tokyo Bay to provided protection for Edo. In 1928, the third of these emplacements was turned into Suijo- Park, affording spectacular views of the bay. Maekawa portrays a group of fashionably dressed residents of the city looking out at the urban landscape next to a navigation marker. The men and children are dressed in Western-style garments, while the two women wear kimono.
SM 2012

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