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Castle by Saito Kiyoshi — Japanese Color woodblock print; edition 50/50, 1955

Castle

by Saito Kiyoshi

Date:
1955
Medium:
Color woodblock print; edition 50/50
Edition:
Self-printed

Description

The Japanese castle holds an almost mythological place in the national imagination, and Saito translates that weight into visual mass—stone walls rendered as stacked polygons of grey and ochre, the keep rising against a flat ground with the authority of a seal. Edition 50 of 50 marks the final impression of the run, often exhibiting subtle tonal variations from earlier pulls. Saito's castles are never romantic; they are monuments to human will expressed through geometric form.

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Castle was created by Saito Kiyoshi (斎藤清) in 1955.

Castle depicts castles.