Who created Stone Garden?

Stone Garden was created by Kimura Yoshiharu (木村吉晴).

Stone Garden

Medium:: Woodblock print
Source:: Japanese Art Open Database

Typical Price

Key value factors: As self-carved and self-printed works, sosaku-hanga value is tied to the artist's reputation and edition size. Larger formats, earlier editions, and historically significant works command the highest prices.

Common examples: $100–$500
Good impressions: $500–$2,000
Premium/scarce: $2,000–$10,000

Description

A stone garden — likely a karesansui (dry garden) of raked gravel and strategically placed rocks — rendered in Kimura's contemporary woodblock style. The Zen rock garden was one of Japan's most distinctive aesthetic achievements, the carefully raked gravel suggesting ocean or flowing water through abstract suggestion. Kimura's graphic treatment of this subject translated the garden's own abstract principles — the representation of nature through non-natural materials — into the related abstraction of contemporary printmaking.