Aizu Yanaizu Fukushima
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
This print depicts Yanaizu, a small river town in Aizu, Fukushima Prefecture — the region that anchored Saito Kiyoshi's artistic identity throughout his career. Yanaizu sits along the Tadami River and is known for the Enzoji Temple perched dramatically on a rocky outcropping above the water. Saito's treatment of this subject likely employs his characteristic reduction of architectural and landscape elements to bold, simplified planes of color, carved with broad chisels to leave visible tool marks that animate the surface. The composition probably balances the weight of temple structures against surrounding rock and water using flat areas of tone built through multiple keyblock impressions on washi. This meisho-e subject — a famous place in his home prefecture — carries personal resonance beyond picturesque convention, reflecting Saito's lifelong commitment to Tohoku landscapes as serious artistic territory.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Aizu Yanaizu Fukushima was created by Saito Kiyoshi (斎藤清).
Aizu Yanaizu Fukushima depicts landscapes and village scenes.
