Heian Shrine, Kyoto (Heian jingu)

Heian Shrine in Kyoto (Heian jingu), published in 1936, depicts the Heian Shrine's dramatic vermillion-and-white architecture — a reduced-scale reconstruction of the original Heian imperial palace built in 1895 to commemorate the 1,100th anniversary of Kyoto's founding — in the crisp clarity of daylight or a seasonal atmospheric condition. The shrine's great torii gate, painted vermillion and standing 24 meters tall, is the largest and most visually striking torii in Japan, visible from a considerable distance across the Okazaki cultural district. Hasui's 1936 composition brings his mature atmospheric technique to this relatively new but grandly scaled architectural subject.