The Amino district of Kyoto — a neighborhood of traditional machiya townhouses and commercial streets — is Karhu's subject in this 1974 print, its facade elements rendered in his characteristic warm palette. Karhu spent his career walking the streets of Kyoto's traditional districts, building an intimate knowledge of the city's architectural grain that shows in the specificity with which he renders doorways, lattices, noren, and the particular quality of aged timber in afternoon light. This print belongs to a body of work that functions as a visual archive of a disappearing urban fabric.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Amino-Kyoto was created by Clifton Karhu in 1974.
Amino-Kyoto depicts urban scenes and architecture, set at Kyoto.
Amino-Kyoto measures 30.6 × 40.8 cm (Oban format).
