House in Aizu
- Date:
- 1972
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Dimensions:
- 45.7 × 74.4 cm
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Description
By 1972 Saito had refined his Aizu imagery to something approaching pure architecture—the steep thatched roofs of Fukushima farmhouses reduced to interlocking wedges of white, grey, and amber against the blank weight of a winter sky. Snow is not rendered literally here but implied through the geometric severity of form and the near-total suppression of texture. The work belongs to a lifelong meditation on the place of Saito's birth, a region he returned to again and again as both subject and emotional anchor.
More Prints by Saito Kiyoshi
More Snow Scenes Prints
Fair Weather After Snow at Yamato Bridge, Kyoto (Yamato bashi no yukibare), Taishô period, dated 1924
Woodblock print
The Compound of the Tenman Shrine at Kameido in the Snow (Kameido Tenmangu keidai no yuki), from the series "Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Toto meisho)"
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Miyajima in Snow (Yuki no Miyajima)
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
Color woodblock print; oban
Evening Snow at Shiha Park, Tokyo
1932
Woodblock print
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Frequently Asked Questions
House in Aizu was created by Saito Kiyoshi (斎藤清) in 1972.
House in Aizu depicts snow scenes, architecture, and winter.
House in Aizu measures 45.7 × 74.4 cm.