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.
Yakushiji Temple in Nara is one of the great temples of the Nara period, its twin pagodas (one original, one reconstructed) rising above the flat Yamato Plain in the western part of Nara city. This 1951 print likely shows the temple's original East Pagoda against the Yamato farmland, the ancient three-story structure with its additional mokoshi (skirts) giving it an unusual silhouette. Yakushiji's combination of original eighth-century architecture and open farmland setting made it one of the most distinctive temple subjects in the Nara area.
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.
Yakushi Temple, Nara (Nara Yakushiji) was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in 1951.
Yakushi Temple, Nara (Nara Yakushiji) uses Bokashi, on color woodblock print.
Yakushi Temple, Nara (Nara Yakushiji) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1951).
Yakushi Temple, Nara (Nara Yakushiji) depicts temples & shrines, set at Nara.
