Doorway in Kyoto
- Date:
- 1971
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 57.6 × 55.9 cm
- Source:
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
Description
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.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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).