![Stone (Stone Garden) (Ishi [ishi niwa]) by Okiie Hashimoto — Japanese Color woodblock print; edition 10/50, 1959](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/57f645ca-30e9-a3be-8bd4-94cf4020142c/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
Stone (Stone Garden) (Ishi [ishi niwa])
- Date:
- 1959
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print; edition 10/50
- 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.
Stone (Stone Garden), printed in 1959 in an edition of ten, presents a specific stone or stone grouping within a dry garden composition — isolating the fundamental element of the karesansui aesthetic for individual attention. The stone in the Japanese garden was not merely decorative but carried meaning — standing stones represented mountains, recumbent stones represented islands, and their arrangement in relation to raked gravel created a miniaturized landscape of considerable symbolic density. Hashimoto's geometric approach to rock form made the individual garden stone a subject worthy of the same precision he brought to castle architecture.
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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.
Stone (Stone Garden) (Ishi [ishi niwa]) was created by Okiie Hashimoto (橋本興家) in 1959.
Stone (Stone Garden) (Ishi [ishi niwa]) depicts gardens.
