by Ebina Masao
$200–$1,500. Common prints: $200–$500. Key value factors: Ebina's prints are modestly priced and accessible to beginning collectors of Japanese creative prints.
"A Pavilion" depicts one of the many garden or estate structures that appear throughout The Tale of Genji as settings for romantic encounters, poetic exchanges, and the elaborate social rituals of Heian court life. Pavilions in Genji are charged spaces — their screens and curtains maintaining social propriety while allowing the orchestrated glimpse that Heian decorum required. Ebina's rendering likely captures the atmosphere of such a space: the elegant architectural form, perhaps the suggestion of a figure within, the surrounding garden in a particular season.
A Pavilion was created by Ebina Masao (海老名正夫).
A Pavilion depicts architecture and animals.
