Snow, Moon, and Cherries at Kiyomizu
by Maeda Masao
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- wbp
Description
Snow, Moon, and Cherries at Kiyomizudera — the three classic subjects of Japanese poetic beauty (setsu, getsu, ka: snow, moon, and flowers) combined in the setting of Kyoto's most famous hillside temple — is one of Maeda Masao's most thematically concentrated landscape subjects. The Kiyomizudera platform, projecting over the Otowa valley on its massive timber stilts, offered views of the cherry trees below and the city beyond, and the combination of flowering cherries, moonlit night, and snowfall — improbable in a single scene but possible in the poetic imagination — gave the composition its classical completeness.
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The Compound of the Tenman Shrine at Kameido in the Snow (Kameido Tenmangu keidai no yuki), from the series "Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Toto meisho)"
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Miyajima in Snow (Yuki no Miyajima)
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Evening Snow at Shiha Park, Tokyo
1932
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Frequently Asked Questions
Snow, Moon, and Cherries at Kiyomizu was created by Maeda Masao (前田政雄).
Snow, Moon, and Cherries at Kiyomizu depicts snow scenes, temples & shrines, and moonlight.