Sobu Garden, Meiji Shrine (Meiji jingu Sobuen)
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.
The Sobu Garden at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo is the iris garden in the inner grounds of the shrine, its channels of flowing water and thousands of irises in bloom each June making it one of the finest of Tokyo's flower gardens. This 1951 print likely shows the garden in iris season — the purple and white flowers reflected in the water channels — with the shrine's cedar forest providing the deep green enclosure that defines the garden's atmosphere. The shrine's combination of sacred architecture and ornamental garden gave Hasui a richly layered subject.
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.
Sobu Garden, Meiji Shrine (Meiji jingu Sobuen) was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in 1951.
Sobu Garden, Meiji Shrine (Meiji jingu Sobuen) uses Bokashi, on color woodblock print.
Sobu Garden, Meiji Shrine (Meiji jingu Sobuen) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1951).
Sobu Garden, Meiji Shrine (Meiji jingu Sobuen) depicts temples & shrines and gardens.
