The simple title Kyoto encompasses the full range of Saito's engagement with the city—temple roofs, stone garden walls, latticed machiya facades, the lantern-lit paths of the geisha districts—compressed into a single image. This undated print may have served as a kind of summary statement, an attempt to capture not a specific location but the accumulated feeling of the city as he had come to understand it through decades of looking, the essential geometry of the old capital.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Kyoto was created by Saito Kiyoshi (斎藤清).
Kyoto depicts urban scenes, temples & shrines, and architecture, set at Kyoto.
