Everlasting Summer Garden in the Hotel's Backyard
常夏の庭はホテルのbackyardで
by Tamayo Oishi
- Medium:
- Silkscreen
- Dimensions:
- 80 × 59 cm
- Image courtesy of
- CWAJ Print Show Online Gallery
常夏の庭はホテルのbackyardで
by Tamayo Oishi
Executed as a horizontal silkscreen measuring 59 × 80 cm, this 2023 work depicts the planted grounds at the rear of a hotel — an interstitial, semi-private landscape rather than a manicured front garden or open nature. The bilingual title (常夏の庭はホテルのbackyardで) splices Japanese and English mid-phrase, signalling an interest in the layered vocabulary of contemporary Tokyo rather than the classical [meisho-e](/glossary/meisho-e) tradition of named scenic places. Silkscreen as a medium favors flat, saturated color fields built through successive screen passes with tight registration; the horizontal format suits broad bands of garden foliage, paving, and architectural edges, and departs from the woodblock-and-[baren](/glossary/baren) technical lineage that defines most historic hanga. The 'everlasting summer' framing (常夏, tokonatsu) implies tropical or perpetually green planting — palms, broad leaves, ornamental shrubs — of the kind associated with resort-style hotel grounds. Within Oishi's wider practice, the print represents a Joshibi-trained printmaker's turn toward observed urban-leisure environments, distinct from the [kacho-e](/glossary/kacho-e) and [bijin-ga](/glossary/bijin-ga) lineages favored by earlier generations of Japanese women printmakers, and was selected for the 68th CWAJ Print Show in 2025.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Everlasting Summer Garden in the Hotel's Backyard (常夏の庭はホテルのbackyardで) was created by Tamayo Oishi (大石 玉世).
Everlasting Summer Garden in the Hotel's Backyard uses Silkscreen, on silkscreen.
Everlasting Summer Garden in the Hotel's Backyard depicts landscapes.
Everlasting Summer Garden in the Hotel's Backyard measures 80 × 59 cm.