A traditional wooden doorway in a Kyoto machiya townhouse is Karhu's subject in this 1971 print, its latticed screen, weathered frame, and stone step rendered with the detailed attention of an artist who had spent a decade learning to see the city's architecture. The doorway — threshold, transition point, the opening between public street and private interior — was a recurring subject in Karhu's Kyoto work precisely because it concentrated so much of what he found compelling about the city's traditional architecture: its layering, its craft, its invitation to passage.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Doorway in Kyoto was created by Clifton Karhu in 1971.
Doorway in Kyoto depicts urban scenes and architecture, set at Kyoto.
Doorway in Kyoto measures 57.6 × 55.9 cm (Oban format).
