Tanigumi Temple, Mino (Mino no Tanigumidera)
by Kawase Hasui
- Date:
- 1947
- 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.
Tanigumi Temple in Mino Province (Gifu Prefecture) is a Tendai Buddhist temple in the mountains north of Gifu city, known for its wisteria garden and for being one of the oldest temples in the Chubu region. This 1947 print likely shows the temple approach through mature cryptomeria forest, the main hall and its gateway visible at the end of the cedar avenue. The mountain temple in summer or autumn forest is one of Hasui's most practiced compositional formulas, executed here in the inland mountain setting of northern Gifu.
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.
Tanigumi Temple, Mino (Mino no Tanigumidera) was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in 1947.
Tanigumi Temple, Mino (Mino no Tanigumidera) uses Bokashi, on color woodblock print.
Tanigumi Temple, Mino (Mino no Tanigumidera) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1947).
Tanigumi Temple, Mino (Mino no Tanigumidera) depicts temples & shrines.
