Temple with lanterns
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 temple with stone lanterns — ishidoro — lining its approach or surrounding its main hall, the lanterns creating a rhythmic procession of stone forms through the temple precincts. Stone lanterns are among the most characteristic objects of Japanese sacred architecture, their forms ranging from the simple to the elaborate, their surfaces softened by moss and age. Nisaburo's treatment of this subject emphasizes the lanterns as compositional elements within a broader temple landscape, the repetition of their forms creating visual music through the scene.
伏見稲荷
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Uji Byodoin no ichibu
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
1897 (Meiji 30)
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Temple with lanterns was created by Ito Nisaburo (伊藤仁三郎).
Temple with lanterns depicts temples & shrines.
