Tower of Yasaka, Kyoto, Shôwa period, dated 1958
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Harvard Art Museums
The five-story pagoda of Yasaka—actually the Hokanji Temple pagoda, a Kyoto landmark visible from the Higashiyama hillside streets—was one of the city's most iconic silhouettes. Saito's 1958 rendering shows the pagoda in strict formal reduction: each tier a flat horizontal mass, the whole rising as a stacked sequence of geometric volumes against a sky of raw woodblock paper. The work demonstrates his conviction that architecture understood as geometry contained its own spiritual content.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Tower of Yasaka, Kyoto, Shôwa period, dated 1958 was created by Saito Kiyoshi (斎藤清).
Tower of Yasaka, Kyoto, Shôwa period, dated 1958 depicts architecture, set at Kyoto.
