Hie Shrine
- Medium:
- Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
- Image courtesy of
- Saru Gallery
Hie Shrine in Akasaka, dedicated to the deity Oyamakui-no-kami, is a major Shinto shrine of Tokyo, originally established as a protective shrine for Edo Castle. Its stepped approach beneath a cedar canopy and its torii on the slope had been recorded by landscape artists since the Edo period. Koizumi likely frames the shrine through its architecture and approach — vermilion timberwork, stone steps, and surrounding vegetation — using [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) to carry shade through the cedars and registered linework to articulate the precinct's joinery. The print belongs to One Hundred Views of Great Tokyo, the series Koizumi cut and printed himself between 1928 and 1940. Including Hie alongside bridges, stations, and newly built districts reflects his documentary reading of the capital as a layering of Edo-period sacred space and twentieth-century urbanism. The [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) method — artist as sole carver and printer — separated him from [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) peers working through publishers such as Watanabe.
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
1932
Color woodblock print; oban
![Kiba Lumberyard along the River at Fukugawa (New Edition) [Fukagawa-ku, kiba no kawasuji (shinpan)], from the series "One Hundred Views of Great Tokyo in the Showa Era (Showa dai Tokyo fukei hyaku zue hanga)" by Kishio Koizumi](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/f6380c15-6d23-c26a-899d-08ead4db792b/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
1940
Color woodblock print; oban
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.
Hie Shrine was created by Kishio Koizumi (小泉癸巳男).
Hie Shrine depicts temples & shrines.