Eastern Hamlet, Horyu Temple (Horyuji higashi sato)
by Kawase Hasui
by Kawase Hasui
Temple and shrine subjects form the backbone of Hasui's rural Japan repertoire — steady, consistently popular categories that hold value across all market conditions. Snow at temple subjects command the highest premiums (Snow at Tosho-gu Shrine in Ueno achieved $3,200 at Artelino; Saishoin Temple in the Snow reached $3,000). Standard pre-war temple scenes without snow trade between $1,000–$3,500. Postwar lifetime editions (1946–1957) bearing the small 6mm J-seal represent authentic lifetime impressions but from the artist's final decade.
Eastern Hamlet at Horyu Temple, published in 1956, depicts the eastern precinct (Higashi Sato) of Horyuji — the seventh-century Buddhist temple complex near Nara that houses the world's oldest surviving wooden structures — and specifically the Chuguji convent and Yumedono (Hall of Dreams) octagonal hall that form its eastern extension. The 1956 date makes this among Hasui's final significant prints before his 1957 death, and his choice of Horyuji's eastern hamlet — quieter and less monumental than the western main precinct — reflects a late-career preference for intimate and unexpected compositions of well-known sites. The village setting (sato) gives the famous temple complex a domestic, human-scaled presence.
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.
Eastern Hamlet, Horyu Temple (Horyuji higashi sato) was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in 1956.
Eastern Hamlet, Horyu Temple (Horyuji higashi sato) uses Bokashi, on color woodblock print.
Eastern Hamlet, Horyu Temple (Horyuji higashi sato) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1956).
Eastern Hamlet, Horyu Temple (Horyuji higashi sato) depicts temples & shrines and village scenes.
