Eigamura

A second view of the Toei Kyoto Studio Park's reconstructed Edo townscape. Karhu's repeated treatment of Eigamura suggests he found the period streetscape productive — the recreated facades offered the same visual content as Kyoto's surviving machiya districts but stripped of contemporary signage and utility wires. This version reframes the subject from a different angle, perhaps a narrower alley view or a corner where the perspective lines converge between flanking buildings. The print deploys Karhu's standard registration system: a sumi-toned key block establishing the architectural skeleton, followed by successive color impressions registered with carved kento marks at the edges of the block. In producing two versions of Eigamura, Karhu participates in a tradition long established within mokuhanga of revisiting a subject to capture different lights, seasons, and approaches — a practice rooted in Hokusai's and Hiroshige's serial meisho-e and continued through the shin-hanga and sosaku-hanga movements that informed his own training.