Golden Pavilion - Kinkakuji
by Ito Nisaburo
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
The Golden Pavilion — Kinkaku-ji — is the most celebrated building in Kyoto and perhaps in all of Japan: a three-story Zen temple complex originally built as a retirement villa for the Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, its upper floors covered in gold leaf and reflected in the Mirror Pond that surrounds it. Nisaburo's shin-hanga depiction of this iconic subject would capture the pavilion's unique quality of gold-on-water reflection, the seasonal context — whether spring cherry blossoms, summer green, autumn maples, or winter snow — creating the specific chromatic and atmospheric character of the image.
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Golden Pavilion - Kinkakuji was created by Ito Nisaburo (伊藤仁三郎).
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