Great Gate of Heian Shrine
- Date:
- Not set
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
The great Romon gate of Heian Shrine in Okazaki — a 1895 reconstruction of the ancient Ōtenmon gate of the imperial palace, scaled to nine-tenths of the original — presents Kotozuka with one of Kyoto's most imposing architectural subjects. The gate's red lacquered pillars and green-tiled roof rise above a wide forecourt, its bilateral symmetry and formal grandeur making it one of the city's most immediately legible architectural statements. Kotozuka's treatment of this ceremonial architecture emphasizes both its scale and the quality of its formal proportions.
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Great Gate of Heian Shrine was created by Kotozuka Eiichi (琴塚英一) in Not set.
Great Gate of Heian Shrine depicts temples & shrines and architecture.