The print depicts the meeting of the Taki and Otonashi rivers near the Kongoji temple grounds. Compositions of this kind typically use an elevated vantage to set the architecture against the receding ribbons of water, with [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) describing the depth of the surface and the shaded ravine walls. The doubled river subject permits Koizumi to display the woodblock's capacity for water rendering — small directional cuts in the keyblock for the current, layered transparent passes for the shifting tone of the stream. Temple-and-river compositions belong to the [meisho-e](/glossary/meisho-e) and [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) landscape vocabulary, and their appearance in Koizumi's output reflects his hybrid position: the topographic, place-named subjects of shin-hanga combined with the [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) discipline of self-carving and self-printing. He designed, carved, and printed every block himself, the print emerging entirely from his hand without the workshop division of Edo-period production.
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.
Taki River and Otonashi River at Kongôji Temple was created by Kishio Koizumi (小泉癸巳男).
Taki River and Otonashi River at Kongôji Temple depicts temples & shrines and rivers & lakes.