Five Storey Pagoda
by Ito Nisaburo
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
by Ito Nisaburo
$200–$2,000. Temple scenes are among the most popular subjects for this artist. Good temple/garden scenes: $600–$1,200. Key value factors: Ito Nisaburo's Kyoto prints are popular and accessible. Night scenes, snow views, and cherry blossom compositions command premiums.
A five-story pagoda — gojunoto — is one of the most architecturally distinctive subjects in Japanese landscape, its stacked diminishing rooflines creating a rhythm of eaves against sky that has drawn artists since the Nara period. Ito Nisaburo's shin-hanga treatment of this classic subject would emphasize the pagoda's graceful proportions and its relationship to surrounding trees and sky, rendered with the refined color printing and atmospheric sensitivity that characterizes the best shin-hanga landscape work.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Five Storey Pagoda was created by Ito Nisaburo (伊藤仁三郎).
Five Storey Pagoda depicts pagodas.
