Combining figurative, architectural, and abstract subjects, this print addresses one of Japan's most symbolically charged sites—the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, center of ceremonial national life. Kurosaki does not approach such material through conventional [meisho-e](/glossary/meisho-e) landscape description; instead, architectural elements are absorbed into his geometric abstract language, where palace walls, gates, or the moat's geometry become color planes and structural forms. Figures, where present, may be reduced to geometric presences within this architecturally derived field. The layering of multiple woodblocks builds compositional complexity, with each ink pass adding spatial or tonal information. The political and symbolic weight of the imperial site gives the print a conceptual dimension beyond formal abstraction—Kurosaki engaging with Japanese national identity through the medium of modernist [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga).
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Imperial Palace was created by Akira Kurosaki (黒崎彰).
Imperial Palace depicts figures, architecture, and abstract.
