by Mayumi Oda
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A diptych depicting figures arriving in a garden — the garden as a place of meeting, gathering, or sacred encounter that draws its visitors from elsewhere into its contained world of cultivated nature. Oda's garden compositions invoke the long tradition of the garden as a spiritual space: from the Buddhist temple garden as a contemplative environment to the indigenous tradition of specific landscapes as sacred places where human and divine can meet. "They came here" suggests a purposeful journey, a pilgrimage to the garden rather than merely a stroll through it. Near the end of this edition (44/45), this print is among the last made from these blocks.
![[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
In The Garden, They Came Here (44/45) Diptych was created by Mayumi Oda (小田真由美).
In The Garden, They Came Here (44/45) Diptych depicts gardens.
