Higashiyama

Higashiyama, the eastern mountain district of Kyoto, encompasses a chain of temples, shrines, and forested hillsides that form the city's most culturally dense corridor. Brayer, who lives in Kyoto, has walked these slopes countless times, absorbing the way the district's atmosphere shifts with season, weather, and time of day. This mokuhanga print abstracts the experience of Higashiyama into color and light, likely rendering the forested hillside as a luminous field rather than a detailed topographic study. The eastern mountains catch the morning sun and fall into early shadow in the afternoon, creating dramatic light transitions that suit Brayer's interest in threshold states. The print connects her contemporary abstract practice to one of Kyoto's most historically depicted landscapes.