Garden in Ryuanji (Ryuanji niwa)
- Date:
- 1973
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print; edition 56/150
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
$1,000–$8,000. Common subjects: $1,000–$2,500. Key value factors: Hashimoto's bold castle prints are his most recognizable and collected works. Larger formats command premiums.
The garden of Ryoanji Temple in Kyoto — perhaps the world's most celebrated dry landscape garden — is Hashimoto's subject in this 1973 print, issued in an edition of fifty-six. The garden's fifteen stones, arranged in five groupings on a bed of carefully raked white gravel, presents perhaps the ultimate expression of the karesansui principle: a composition so reduced to essentials that its meaning remains perpetually open to interpretation. Hashimoto's rendering honors the garden's severe beauty through his own comparable commitment to reduction and precision.
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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
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Garden in Ryuanji (Ryuanji niwa) was created by Okiie Hashimoto (橋本興家) in 1973.
Garden in Ryuanji (Ryuanji niwa) depicts gardens.
