Famous Views of Japan: Himeji Castle (Nihon meisho zu-e: Hemijijo)

From Binnie's Famous Views of Japan series (Nihon meisho zu-e), this print depicts Himeji Castle — Japan's most celebrated feudal-era castle — as a full landscape composition with the characteristic bokashi gradation of his landscape work. The castle's layered white towers (which inspired its alternate name, White Heron Castle) rise from their stone foundation against a sky rendered in Binnie's characteristic atmospheric gradation. The Famous Views series brings the shin-hanga landscape tradition into dialogue with Japan's most iconic architectural sites.