Azalea garden of Shisendo Temple
- Medium:
- Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
- Image courtesy of
- Saru Gallery
Description
A stone pathway winds between rounded, densely clipped azalea hedges—rendered in teal-green with small white blossom flecks—leading toward a thatched-and-tiled temple building with a small lantern-topped tower. Slender red-barked pine branches with yellow-green needles arch across the composition against a pale cream sky, and a vertical red panel with dark characters marks the right edge near a cluster of tall pines. The palette is dominated by saturated teals, yellow-greens, and browns, giving the quiet garden scene a bright, patterned stillness; the print is signed and dated 1982 in pencil, numbered 173/100.
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Azalea garden of Shisendo Temple was created by Fumio Kitaoka (北岡文雄).
Azalea garden of Shisendo Temple depicts temples & shrines and gardens.