Kyoto
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Honolulu Museum of Art
Description
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.
More Prints by Saito Kiyoshi
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View of Kabuki Theater from Matsuya (Ginza Matsuya yori Kabukiza), no. 3 from the series "Pictures of Ginza, First Series (Gashu Ginza dai isshu)"
1928
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Distant View of Mitsukoshi Movie Theater in Shinjuku from the Sixth Floor of Hoteiya (Hoteiya rokkai kara Shinjuku Mitsukoshi Musashi no kan enbo zu), no. 1 from the series "Scenery of Shinjuku (Gashu Shinjuku fukei)"
1930
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Spring Dusk at the Tōshō Shrine in Ueno
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Kyoto was created by Saito Kiyoshi (斎藤清).
Kyoto depicts urban scenes, temples & shrines, and architecture, set at Kyoto.