The Shimogamo district of Kyoto — site of Shimogamo Shrine, one of the city's oldest Shinto establishments — provides the architectural setting for this 1971 print, the traditional townhouses and tree-lined approaches to the shrine rendered in Karhu's warm, direct palette. Shimogamo's combination of sacred precincts and residential streets, its old-growth forest of the Tadasu no Mori, and its relatively unhurried pace made it a natural subject for an artist committed to recording the traditional fabric of Kyoto's neighborhoods before modernization erased them.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Shimogamo-Kyoto was created by Clifton Karhu in 1971.
Shimogamo-Kyoto depicts urban scenes, temples & shrines, and architecture, set at Kyoto.
Shimogamo-Kyoto measures 34 × 55.3 cm (Oban format).
