White Dream
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Honolulu Museum of Art
Description
White Dream operates in the abstract register that Saito visited increasingly in the later decades of his career—forms hovering between landscape and pure composition, shapes that might be snow-covered hills or simply masses of light. The whiteness here is not empty but structural: in the woodblock medium, white is the paper showing through, the place where the carver chose not to cut, making absence the primary material. Few printmakers understood that negative space with greater precision.
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Lake Kugushi in Wakasa Province (Wakasa Kugushiko), from the series Souvenirs of Travel I (Tabi miyage dai isshu)"
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Autumn Maple Leaves at Takao, from the album Eight Views of Kyoto (Kyôto hakkei)
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The Beach at Kaiganji in Sanuki Province (Sanuki Kaiganji no hama), from the series "Collection of Views of Japan II, Kansai Edition (Nihon fukei shu II Kansai hen)"
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Tea Kettle, section of a sheet from the series "Mirror of Stone Rubbings of Views of the Provinces" (Kohon meihitsu ishizuri kagami)
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Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
White Dream was created by Saito Kiyoshi (斎藤清).
White Dream depicts landscapes, snow scenes, and abstract.