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.
Pagoda at Honmon Temple, Ikegami, published in 1954, depicts the five-story pagoda of Ikegami Honmon-ji — the head temple of the Nichiren sect of Buddhism, located in the Ota ward of Tokyo on a hilltop that has been sacred to Nichiren followers since the thirteenth century. The pagoda, rebuilt in the Edo period, rises above the wooded temple grounds and is one of Tokyo's most elegant surviving pagoda structures. Hasui's late print captures the pagoda's tiered silhouette likely framed by trees, with the composition's [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) sky adding the atmospheric depth characteristic of his mature temple views.
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.
Pagoda at Honmon Temple, Ikegami (Ikegami Honmonji no to) (Ikegami Honmonji no to) was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in 1954.
Pagoda at Honmon Temple, Ikegami (Ikegami Honmonji no to) uses Bokashi, Nishiki-e, and Moku-hanga, on color woodblock print.
Pagoda at Honmon Temple, Ikegami (Ikegami Honmonji no to) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1954).
Pagoda at Honmon Temple, Ikegami (Ikegami Honmonji no to) depicts temples & shrines and pagodas.
Pagoda at Honmon Temple, Ikegami (Ikegami Honmonji no to) measures 36.3 × 24.4 cm (Oban format).
