"Taiwan Pavilion," from the 1949 Shinjuku Imperial Garden print series, depicts the garden's distinctive Taiwanese-style pavilion — a structure built to celebrate the formal incorporation of Taiwan into the Japanese empire in the Meiji period and preserved within the garden after Japan's postwar loss of Taiwan. Onchi's depiction of this politically resonant structure in 1949 — four years after Japan's defeat — carries complex historical implications: the pavilion as architectural remnant of an empire that no longer existed, preserved within a garden undergoing its own postwar transformation.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Taiwan Pavilion, 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 — Taiwan Pavilion, 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.
Taiwan Pavilion, from the series "Prints of the Shinjuku Imperial Garden (Shinjuku Gyoen hanga)" depicts urban scenes, architecture, and gardens.
