Spring at Chomei Temple
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$500–$8,000. Common later works: $500–$2,000. Key value factors: Hagiwara's abstract works are collected by both Japanese print and modern art collectors.
Spring at Chomei Temple renders the ancient temple — associated with the thirteenth-century Buddhist monk and writer Kamo no Chomei, who retreated to a small hut and wrote his famous "Hojoki" (Account of My Hut) — in the full flowering of spring. The temple's association with Chomei's radical simplicity and his meditation on impermanence gave the spring blossoms an additional layer of meaning: the cherry and plum flowers that announced spring were exactly the kind of transient beauty that Chomei's writing had explored. Hagiwara's treatment connects the spring subject to its literary and philosophical heritage.
伏見稲荷
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
Uji Byodoin no ichibu
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Spring at Chomei Temple was created by Hideo Hagiwara (萩原英雄).
Spring at Chomei Temple depicts temples & shrines and spring.
