The Garden Viewed from a Western-Style Building (Yokan yori teien o nozomu)
by Kawase Hasui
- Date:
- 1920
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Description
The garden seen from a Western-style building — an architectural pairing unusual in early Hasui — shows a Japanese garden viewed through a Western window or from a veranda of a Meiji-era Western building. This 1920 print uses bokashi gradations to render the garden's landscape in the style of a Japanese woodblock while framing it within the vocabulary of Western domestic architecture. The subject likely reflects the Japan of 1920 in which Western and Japanese spatial concepts coexisted.
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Frequently Asked Questions
The Garden Viewed from a Western-Style Building (Yokan yori teien o nozomu) was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in 1920.
The Garden Viewed from a Western-Style Building (Yokan yori teien o nozomu) uses Bokashi, on color woodblock print.
The Garden Viewed from a Western-Style Building (Yokan yori teien o nozomu) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1920).
The Garden Viewed from a Western-Style Building (Yokan yori teien o nozomu) depicts architecture and gardens.