Hagurosan Sanjingousaiden

The Sanjin Gosaiden at Mount Haguro, the large thatched-roof shrine that combines worship of the three deities of Dewa Sanzan — the kami of Mounts Haguro, Gassan, and Yudono — under a single roof when winter snow makes the higher peaks inaccessible to pilgrims. The building's defining feature is its thick thatched roof, which provides Morimura with a dominant compositional element of textured horizontal sweep above the supporting structure. The print likely emphasizes the contrast between this organic, weighty roof mass and the orderly grid of vertical posts, lattice walls, and shoji panels below. The palette would draw on the warm golden-browns of aged thatch, the dark timbers, the vermilion of any visible painted detail, and the surrounding cedars rendered in cool greens. Together with his treatment of the Hagurosan pagoda, this subject reflects Morimura's recurring engagement with the Dewa Sanzan pilgrimage complex as one of his preferred subjects within the broader category of sacred architecture.