ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM 47 Returning Sails at Yabase transforms Sòng Dí’s original theme of exile and dreams of return into a celebration of human activity at Lake Biwa’s ancient harbor, Yabase. During the Edo Period, Yabase was a crucial transport hub. The print combines traditional Japanese landscape art with European singlepoint perspective, reflecting Edo period artists’ experimentation with foreign artistic techniques introduced through Dutch traders. Below is another print of the same theme. Although made a few decades later, it reflects a more traditional style of representation. Above: Ryūryūkyo Shinsai 柳々居辰斎 (Japanese, ca. 1764–1820) ReturningSails at Yabase, fromthe series Eight Views of Ōmi, 1810s Color woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper MaryA. AinsworthBequest, 1950.489 Right: UtagawaHiroshige I 初代目歌川広重 (Japanese, 1797–1858) ReturningSails at Yabase, fromthe series Eight Views of LakeBiwa, early 1830s Color woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper MaryA. AinsworthBequest, 1950.1060
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