Hokkaidô A (Cows), Shôwa period, dated 1961
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Harvard Art Museums
Description
The 1961 Hokkaido A (Cows) shows Saito responding to a landscape and agricultural economy quite different from the rice-paddy culture of his home region—the broad flat pastures of Japan's northernmost main island, introduced dairy farming, the low-roofed barns built against Hokkaido's severe winters. Cows, rare in traditional Japanese art, appear here as bold rounded masses against open sky, the same compositional logic applied to them as to the Aizu farmhouses he knew intimately.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Hokkaidô A (Cows), Shôwa period, dated 1961 was created by Saito Kiyoshi (斎藤清).
Hokkaidô A (Cows), Shôwa period, dated 1961 depicts landscapes, animals, and village scenes.