Temple Garden (Artist's Proof), Shôwa period, 1964
by Ansei Uchima
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Harvard Art Museums
by Ansei Uchima
$500–$4,000. Temple scenes are among the most popular subjects for this artist. Good landscape prints: $1,500–$2,500. Key value factors: Uchima's luminous landscape prints appeal to collectors of both Japanese prints and modern American art.
Temple Garden (1964) is a woodblock print created as an artist's proof during the Showa period, depicting the cultivated landscape of a Buddhist or Shinto temple compound. Japanese temple gardens — whether the raked gravel of Zen rock gardens, the moss-covered strolling gardens of Pure Land temples, or the naturalistic woodland gardens of mountain shrines — represent some of the world's most refined intersections of architecture, horticulture, and philosophy. Uchima's abstract rendering strips the temple garden to its spatial and tonal essentials: the relationship between stone and void, the quality of filtered light through tree canopy, and the cultivated silence that distinguishes sacred ground from surrounding landscape.
伏見稲荷
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
Uji Byodoin no ichibu
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Temple Garden (Artist's Proof), Shôwa period, 1964 was created by Ansei Uchima (内間安瑆).
Temple Garden (Artist's Proof), Shôwa period, 1964 depicts temples & shrines and gardens.
