The India (B) print belongs to a series of impressions from Saito's travels to South and Southeast Asia—journeys that brought him into contact with Buddhist sites and sculptural traditions quite different from the Japanese canon he had grown up with. The designation (B) suggests at least two India prints, with the (B) variant offering a different subject or color treatment. His response to Indian material culture—its scale, its ornamental richness, its tropical light—would test the limits of his reductive approach.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
India (B) was created by Saito Kiyoshi (斎藤清).
India (B) depicts landscapes, religious, and travel scenes.
