


Year: 2022
Medium: Pigmented ink on silver paper
Dimension: 30.9 x 21.6 x 0.3 cm / 12.2 x 8.5 x 0.1 in
Edition: 8 (4 remaining)
Signature: Hand-signed by artist, back
This work includes a certificate of authenticity, and black frame.
Inspired by Hiroshige Utagawa
The title means "(close view) (O) Daiba (more) (distant view) Oi (pier) (facing)". The full-scale Unicorn Gundam in Odaiba is captured as a modern Buddha statue, and a close-up is drawn in the near view, and the night view of Oi Wharf across Tokyo Bay is drawn in the distant view. In the night sky, the space colony "Laplace" (an imaginary figure of Stanford Torus), which is a fictitious space colony that appears in the story of "Mobile Suit Gundam UC", is drawn.
The Odaiba area in the distant view of Hiroshige's "Shinagawa Susaki," No.83 from "One hundred Famous Views of Edo", did not exist at that time.
This is a view looking backward from Odaiba, which was created in modern times as reclaimed land, toward Oi (in the direction of Shinagawa Susaki).
お台場にある実物大のユニコーンガンダムを現代の仏像として捉え、遠景には東京湾を挟んだ大井埠頭の夜景が描かれています。夜空浮かぶのは「機動戦士ガンダムUC」の物語に登場する架空の宇宙植民地であるスペースコロニー「ラプラス」(の想像図であるスタンフォード・トーラス)です。
広重の「名所江戸百景」第八十三景「品川すさき」の遠景であるお台場方面は、当時は存在しませんでした。埋立地として近代に生まれたお台場から、大井(品川すさき方面)を逆方向で臨んだ風景です。