Hana-chiru-sato (from In the Garden of Genji)
花散里
- Medium:
- Aquatint, deep etching, gold leaf
- Image courtesy of
- Hiroaki Miyayama Official Site — In the Garden of Genji
花散里
The eleventh chapter's title — the village of falling flowers — refers to Genji's visit to a quiet former lover at her secluded estate, evoked through the perfume of mandarin orange (tachibana) blossoms that fall through the summer night. Miyayama's print likely suspends a small constellation of five-petalled tachibana flowers, or the citrus fruit that is the plant's emblem, against an expanse of gold leaf. The flat decorative ground recalls the tarashikomi pooled-pigment passages of Rinpa-school painting, while the aquatint provides an inkstone-like density behind the bitten contour line. Within the series Hana-chiru-sato sits between the death of Aoi and Genji's exile, a brief lyrical pause; Miyayama's treatment of the chapter generally reflects this register, favouring restraint and a sparer palette than the politically charged plates that surround it.
![[Garden of] Taj Mahal, No. 1 (Taji Maharu no niwa, dai ichi) by Hiroshi Yoshida](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/230993a7-d4f0-c979-c267-127d48e1ef1c/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
Taji Maharu no niwa, dai ichi
1931
Color woodblock print; oban
January 1938
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
1938
Color woodblock print; oban
10/70, 1966
Woodblock print
Hana-chiru-sato (from In the Garden of Genji) (花散里) was created by Hiroaki Miyayama (宮山 広明).
Hana-chiru-sato (from In the Garden of Genji) depicts gardens and literary.
