Kohoan is the most private of Daitokuji's many sub-temples, a space designed by the tea master Kobori Enshu in the early seventeenth century for contemplation through carefully framed views—roji garden paths, shoji screens, a veranda that turns the garden into a painting. Saito's 1961 rendering strips the architecture to its essential geometry: the severe horizontals and verticals of the temple's wooden framework become his composition, with the garden glimpsed as flat planes of color beyond.
伏見稲荷
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
Uji Byodoin no ichibu
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Kohô-an, Daitoku-ji, Kyoto, Shôwa period, dated 1961 was created by Saito Kiyoshi (斎藤清).
Kohô-an, Daitoku-ji, Kyoto, Shôwa period, dated 1961 depicts temples & shrines, architecture, and gardens, set at Kyoto.
