Ryoanji's karesansui dry garden—fifteen stones arranged in raked white gravel, the entire composition enclosed by low clay walls—is among the most analyzed works of art in Japanese history. Saito's Showa-period 1960 version approaches the garden with characteristic restraint, refusing the temptation to reproduce its famous ambiguity and instead treating the composition as a structural problem: how to represent organized emptiness through a medium whose own logic is the organization of flat planes.
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.
Ryôan-ji, Kyoto, Shôwa period, dated 1960 was created by Saito Kiyoshi (斎藤清).
Ryôan-ji, Kyoto, Shôwa period, dated 1960 depicts temples & shrines, gardens, and abstract, set at Kyoto.
