The Katsura Imperial Villa — the seventeenth-century masterwork of Japanese architectural design, its gardens and teahouses considered among the finest expressions of wabi sensibility — is Karhu's subject in this undated print. Katsura's influence on modern architecture was enormous (Bruno Taut's 1933 visit made it internationally famous), and Karhu's decision to render it in woodblock acknowledges the villa's place as the canonical Japanese building — the distillation of everything that the Kyoto tradition considered beautiful in constructed space.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Katsura Rikyu was created by Clifton Karhu in Not set.
Katsura Rikyu depicts landscapes, architecture, and gardens.
