Jikoin in Nara is a Rinzai Zen temple best known for a garden that uses the surrounding mountains as borrowed scenery—the vertical hedge lines framing a view of Yamato Sanzan so deliberately composed that it functions as a three-dimensional painting. Saito's rendering would isolate the geometry of this arrangement, the parallel hedge lines acting like woodblock margin lines, structuring space with the formality of a musical score.
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.
Jiko-in, Nara was created by Saito Kiyoshi (斎藤清).
Jiko-in, Nara depicts landscapes, temples & shrines, and gardens, set at Nara.
