Pagoda
- Date:
- Not set
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
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.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Pagoda was created by Kotozuka Eiichi (琴塚英一) in Not set.
Pagoda depicts temples & shrines and pagodas.