Kohô-an, Daitoku-ji, Kyoto, Shôwa period, dated 1961
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Harvard Art Museums
Description
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.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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.