Pagoda
- Date:
- Not set
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$200–$2,000. Temple scenes are among the most popular subjects for this artist. Good temple/seasonal scenes: $500–$1,200. Key value factors: Kotozuka's Kyoto prints are popular and affordable. Seasonal temple scenes and garden views are most sought after.
A pagoda print without further identification could depict any of the great multi-story towers that punctuate the Japanese sacred landscape — the five-story pagodas of Ninnaji, Toji, Kofukuji, and Nikko being among Kotozuka's documented subjects. The pagoda's formal structure — tapering stories with distinctive curved roofs, the symbolic condensation of the stupa form — makes it one of the most distinctive silhouettes in Japanese architectural landscape, and Kotozuka returned to this subject multiple times across his career.
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.
Pagoda was created by Kotozuka Eiichi (琴塚英一) in Not set.
Pagoda depicts temples & shrines and pagodas.
