Chinese Temple Nagasaki
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Honolulu Museum of Art
Description
Nagasaki's Chinese community—one of the few foreign populations permitted to reside in Japan during the Edo period—maintained a group of Chinese-style temples in the city's Teramachi district, with the Sofukuji being the most celebrated. Saito's Chinese Temple Nagasaki likely depicts one of these Ming-dynasty-style structures, whose vivid red-orange coloring and upswept rooflines stand in dramatic contrast to the austere aesthetics of Japanese Zen architecture he more typically depicted.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Chinese Temple Nagasaki was created by Saito Kiyoshi (斎藤清).
Chinese Temple Nagasaki depicts temples & shrines, set at Nagasaki.