Dusk at Ochanomizu

Description

Kasamatsu Shiro captures the falling dusk over Ochanomizu, Tokyo. About twenty years earlier, the French-Japanese print artist Noel Nouet must have stood at almost the same place, drawing the same view, at the same time of the day. Of course, the style is completely different, in part because of Nouet being a pencil artist and his publisher Doi publishing the prints very close to his pencil style. Still, the atmospheres are similar and if one is drawn to either of these two prints, they offer an interesting point of comparison. Variants of this design are known, with different colors used and with a pronounced effect in the depiction of the falling evening. The current impression uses subdued colors, making the evening seem later, close to night.