Japan Art and Henmi Takashi: New Tokyo (1928-1932)
Lee Jay Walker
Modern Tokyo Times
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Henmi Takashi (1895-1944) was born in Wakayama in the region of Kansai. However, he is associated with Tokyo and became a stunning sosaku hanga (creative print) printmaker.
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He was involved in the One Hundred Views of New Tokyo along with Maekawa Senpan, Un’ichi Hiratsuka, Kawakami Sumio, Koshiro Onchi, Suwa Kanenori, Sakuichi Fukazawa, and Fujimori Shizou.
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The British Museum says, “He is best known for his thirteen contributions to ‘One Hundred New Views of Tokyo’, marked like much of his work by a gently atmospheric style, with generally lonely figures in townscapes. The early deaths of Tanaka and his close friend the poet Ote Takuji (1887-1934) left his work with a pronounced melancholy…”
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Amazingly – given his atmospheric and thought-provoking style – Henmi had to focus on other forms of work to survive economically.
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