Kyoto House
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- ukiyo-e.org
Description
The narrow streets and machiya townhouses of Kyoto's traditional residential districts are distilled into a single representative facade in this print. Sekino's Kyoto subjects often focus on architectural detail — the latticed screens, the low eaves, the compressed verticality of urban houses built on expensive land — finding in these domestic structures an aesthetic rigor that parallels his own printmaking discipline.
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Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Kyoto House was created by Jun'ichiro Sekino (関野準一郎).
Kyoto House uses Moku-hanga, Nishiki-e, and Sumi, on woodblock print.
Kyoto House depicts urban scenes and architecture, set at Kyoto.