Kōgetsudai Sand Garden
- Date:
- 1961
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Dimensions:
- 60.6 × 49.7 cm
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
$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 Kōgetsudai — the "viewing moon platform" — is the distinctive cone-shaped sand mound in the garden of Kinkaku-ji (the Silver Pavilion) in Kyoto, created to reflect moonlight and provide a geometric counterpoint to the raked sand garden surrounding it. Hashimoto's 1961 rendering focuses on this extraordinary landscape element, whose precise geometric form — a perfect cone rising from the flat gravel field — must have appealed enormously to an artist committed to discovering structure in the traditional Japanese aesthetic environment.
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Color woodblock print; oban
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Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
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Color woodblock print; oban
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Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Kōgetsudai Sand Garden was created by Okiie Hashimoto (橋本興家) in 1961.
Kōgetsudai Sand Garden depicts gardens.
Kōgetsudai Sand Garden measures 60.6 × 49.7 cm.
