Unknown, Japanese garden
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
$1,000–$15,000. Common landscapes: $1,000–$3,000. Key value factors: Kasamatsu's early shin-hanga works (pre-1955) tend to be more valued than his later sosaku-hanga production.
A Japanese garden — its subject unidentified but its formal elements recognizable — appears in the composed silence of a traditional strolling garden, its stones, water, and shaped plantings creating the compressed landscape that garden design has refined over centuries. Kasamatsu's garden prints observe how these designed spaces create specific relationships between near and far, between natural material and human shaping. The unknown garden becomes a generic instance of the garden as aesthetic idea.
![[Garden of] Taj Mahal, No. 1 (Taji Maharu no niwa, dai ichi) by Hiroshi Yoshida](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/230993a7-d4f0-c979-c267-127d48e1ef1c/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
Taji Maharu no niwa, dai ichi
1931
Color woodblock print; oban
January 1938
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
1938
Color woodblock print; oban
10/70, 1966
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Unknown, Japanese garden was created by Shiro Kasamatsu (笠松紫浪).
Unknown, Japanese garden was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
Unknown, Japanese garden depicts gardens.
