Jakko-in—the nunnery at Ohara north of Kyoto where the Empress Kenreimon-in retired after the defeat of the Taira clan in 1185 and spent the remaining decades of her life in prayer—is one of Kyoto's most melancholy sites. Saito's winter treatment would give this atmosphere of historical grief a visual equivalent in the bare trees, the grey light of a mountain winter, the simple architecture of the nunnery's halls stripped of their warm-season foliage.
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
Color woodblock print; oban
1932
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Winter in Jacko-in (Kyoto) was created by Saito Kiyoshi (斎藤清).
Winter in Jacko-in (Kyoto) depicts snow scenes and winter, set at Kyoto.
