Greenhouse, from the series "Prints of the Shinjuku Imperial Garden (Shinjuku Gyoen hanga)"
- Date:
- 1949
- Medium:
"Greenhouse," from the Shinjuku Imperial Garden series (1949), depicts one of the garden's Western-style greenhouse structures — a building type that was itself a product of the Meiji period's enthusiasm for Western horticultural practice. Onchi renders this somewhat anomalous building within the vast Japanese imperial garden with his characteristic formal interest: the glass and steel structure's transparency, the way light passes through its panels, the specific quality of an interior climate engineered to differ from the exterior world. The greenhouse as a print subject allowed exploration of transparency and enclosure impossible in conventional architectural subjects.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Greenhouse, from the series "Prints of the Shinjuku Imperial Garden (Shinjuku Gyoen hanga)" was created by Onchi Koshiro (恩地孝四郎) in 1949.
Yes — Greenhouse, from the series "Prints of the Shinjuku Imperial Garden (Shinjuku Gyoen hanga)" is part of the Prints of the Shinjuku Imperial Garden (Shinjuku Gyoen hanga) series by Onchi Koshiro.
Greenhouse, from the series "Prints of the Shinjuku Imperial Garden (Shinjuku Gyoen hanga)" depicts urban scenes and gardens.
