Kanaya: Five-Storied Pagoda
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Honolulu Museum of Art
$500–$6,000. Common subjects: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Sekino's prolific output keeps prices accessible. Portrait prints are most collected.
The station of Kanaya at the crossing of the Oi River appears here through its pagoda — one of the region's Buddhist architectural landmarks. The pagoda's layered profile against the sky was one of the Tokaido's most characteristic architectural silhouettes, the five-storied structure's diminishing rooflines creating a visual rhythm that Sekino's woodblock vocabulary could render with geometric precision.
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.
Kanaya: Five-Storied Pagoda was created by Jun'ichiro Sekino (関野準一郎).
Kanaya: Five-Storied Pagoda depicts temples & shrines and pagodas.
