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Near Yanagibashi, Eight Views of Tokyo | Kasamatsu Shiro × Unsodo
Near Yanagibashi, Eight Views of Tokyo | Kasamatsu Shiro × Unsodo
Near Yanagibashi, Eight Views of Tokyo | Kasamatsu Shiro × Unsodo
Near Yanagibashi, Eight Views of Tokyo | Kasamatsu Shiro × Unsodo
Near Yanagibashi, Eight Views of Tokyo | Kasamatsu Shiro × Unsodo
Near Yanagibashi, Eight Views of Tokyo | Kasamatsu Shiro × Unsodo

Near Yanagibashi, Eight Views of Tokyo | Kasamatsu Shiro × Unsodo

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Time's Narrative: The Seasons, Continued

Kasamatsu Shiro's Near Yanagibashi, from Eight Views of Tokyo brings us to the water's edge at one of old Tokyo's most beloved gathering places. The scene centers on a traditional wooden building while yellow-hulled yakatabune houseboats rest at the stone embankment below. Kasamatsu renders this scene in the muted grey-green palette of water in the late afternoon — the colors of a city that remembers how to sit quietly beside its river. May this lyrical riverside stillness bring a contemplative, historical presence to your space.

Artist: Kasamatsu Shiro
Woodblock Print: Unsodo
Print Size: Approx. 16 × 11 inch
Frame Size: 28×20inch
About the Japanese 72 Micro Seasons
The Story of Japanese Traditional Colors
Near Yanagibashi, Eight Views of Tokyo | Kasamatsu Shiro × Unsodo

[Yanagibashi: The River's Unchanging Breath]

A city only learns the value of quiet once it has lost it.

boat landing at Yanagibashi. Boats, water, and daily life dissolve together in a dusk of blue-gray and green. This is not a record of a Tokyo now gone — it is the very breath of an era that lived by its rivers, carved directly into the woodblock.

Even amid the fervor of the shin-hanga movement, Kasamatsu kept his gaze fixed not on the city's progress, but on the stillness living inside it. For him, the woodblock print was never a means of recording a changing era — it was a means of preserving what refused to change.

A prescription of riverside quiet, just long enough to let the rush go.

Near Yanagibashi, Eight Views of Tokyo | Kasamatsu Shiro × Unsodo

[Guardians of Time Preserving the Breath of Edo]
More important than being Japan's last publisher of hand-printed woodblock books is the "weight of time" that Unsodo has silently preserved for over 130 years. Amidst the wave of mechanization, they continue to carve woodblocks and infuse pigment into washi paper using the exact methods of the Edo period. At the tip of Unsodo's brushes and blades, the air and temperature of the era in which Hokusai and Hiroshige lived reside perfectly intact,
without the slightest compromise. To own an Unsodo print is to experience the marvel of possessing one of the most brilliant eras of Japanese art in its purest form.