Tsubosaka Temple, Yamato (Yamato Tsubosakadera)
by Kawase Hasui
- Date:
- 1950
- 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.
Tsubosaka Temple in Yamato, published in 1950, depicts Tsubosakadera — the Hasedera temple at Tsubosaka in the Yamato Highlands of Nara Prefecture, known for the legend of a blind man's wife who prayed at the temple for her husband's sight to be restored. The temple's hillside setting above the Yamato plain, with its three-story pagoda visible among the trees, offers a quieter alternative to Nara city's crowded monument precincts. Hasui's 1950 composition likely captures the temple's autumn or spring character in the soft Yamato light that gives this sheltered inland region its characteristic atmospheric warmth.
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.
Tsubosaka Temple, Yamato (Yamato Tsubosakadera) was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in 1950.
Tsubosaka Temple, Yamato (Yamato Tsubosakadera) uses Bokashi, on color woodblock print.
Tsubosaka Temple, Yamato (Yamato Tsubosakadera) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1950).
Tsubosaka Temple, Yamato (Yamato Tsubosakadera) depicts temples & shrines.
