Heirin Temple, Nobidome (Nobidome Hirinji)
by Kawase Hasui
- Date:
- 1952
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
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.
Heirin Temple at Nobidome, published in 1952, depicts a Buddhist temple in the Nobidome area of present-day Saitama Prefecture — a locality on the Musashino plateau west of Tokyo where the Shirako River flows through a relatively preserved agricultural landscape even into the postwar period. The Heirin Temple's composition likely shows the temple precinct's main hall and gate structure in the quiet atmospheric light that Hasui brought to his documentation of ordinary provincial temples across Japan. The [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) sky gives the composition the depth characteristic of his mature temple subjects.
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.
Heirin Temple, Nobidome (Nobidome Hirinji) was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in 1952.
Heirin Temple, Nobidome (Nobidome Hirinji) uses Bokashi, on color woodblock print.
Heirin Temple, Nobidome (Nobidome Hirinji) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1952).
Heirin Temple, Nobidome (Nobidome Hirinji) depicts temples & shrines.
