The Kyoto townhouse—machiya—presented Saito with a different architectural problem than the temple gate or castle keep: a narrow, deep building type optimized for frontage on a commercial street, with a characteristic dark lattice facade and narrow entrance corridor leading to an inner garden. House in Kyoto (B) likely shows one of these traditional merchant dwellings, its street face a grid of wooden lattice that suited Saito's love of geometric pattern.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
House in Kyoto (B) was created by Saito Kiyoshi (斎藤清).
House in Kyoto (B) depicts urban scenes, architecture, and gardens, set at Kyoto.
