Takahashi Yuichi's View of Yamagata City and the famous views of Yedo

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  • 高橋由一<山形市街図>と江戸名所絵
  • タカハシ ユイチ ヤマガタ シガイズ ト エド メイショエ

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In recent years, it has been pointed out by several scholars that the oil paintings by Takahashi Yuichi, one of the predecessors of Western-style painting in the Meiji era of Japan, have several traditional aspects as well as a visual radicality. Among his landscape paintings, the View of Yamagata City was probably painted after the photograph of the same composition and has been considered as a realistic painting devoid of any traditional elements. Despite its close relationship to the photograph, this paper reconsiders the View of Yamagata City as a landscape painted within the tradition of the Famous Views of Yedo, showing the same style which set the major motif on the vanishing point of perspective. Moreover, the expression of the sunset sky and the existence of small-scale people, which do not appear in the photograph are also reminiscent of landscape prints by Ukiyo-e painters such as Hiroshige.

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  • 人文學報

    人文學報 101 19-35, 2011-03

    THE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN HUMANITIES, KYOTO UNIVERSITY

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