Dusk at Ochanomizu

Description

Kasamatsu Shiro shows the falling evening over Ochanomizu, Tokyo. About 20 years earlier the French Japanese print artist Noel Nouet must have stood at almost the same place, drawing up the same view, at the same time of the day. Of course, the style is completely different, in part also due to Noel Nouet being a pencil artist and his publisher Doi publishing the prints very close to his pencil style. Still, the atmospheres are close and if one takes a liking to one of these two prints, it would be interesting to also view the other one. To be sure, the Noel Nouet print is much harder to come by, but the print by Kasamatsu Shiro has been reprinted recently by publisher Unsodo and prints from the recent edition are readily available. Variants of this design are known, with different colors used and with a big impact of the depiction of the falling evening. The recent edition that the current print is from uses subdued colors, making the evening seem later, close to night.