Rock Garden 12, Shôwa period, dated 1960
- Date:
- Shôwa period, 1926-1989
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Harvard Art Museums
$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.
Rock Garden 12, dated 1960, belongs to Hashimoto's extensive series of karesansui compositions in which he explored the infinite variation within what might appear a limited subject. The Showa-period dry landscape garden, with its raked gravel representing water and its stones representing mountains or islands, provided him with a subject that perfectly embodied his own artistic values: the reduction of complex natural forms to geometric essentials, the elevation of pattern to the status of meaning. Each numbered garden in the series represents a different configuration of the same fundamental vocabulary.
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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.
Rock Garden 12, Shôwa period, dated 1960 was created by Okiie Hashimoto (橋本興家) in Shôwa period, 1926-1989.
Rock Garden 12, Shôwa period, dated 1960 depicts gardens.
