$200–$2,000. Common Kyoto views: $200–$600. Key value factors: Ito Nisaburo's Kyoto prints are popular and accessible. Night scenes, snow views, and cherry blossom compositions command premiums.
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](/glossary/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.
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.
Golden Pavilion - Kinkakuji was created by Ito Nisaburo (伊藤仁三郎).
Golden Pavilion - Kinkakuji depicts temples & shrines, architecture, and animals.
