Shotei produced a wide range of subjects throughout his career under publishers Watanabe and Daikokuya. Signed, sealed lifetime editions consistently outperform unsigned export-market copies.
Catalog number C-24 gives an unusual vantage point for a Shotei landscape: looking outward from the top of a pagoda, the viewer sees the temple grounds, surrounding town, and distant countryside laid out below. The pagoda's height transforms the familiar horizontal landscape into a bird's-eye prospect, the rooftops and treetops below giving way to the hazy middle distance and an expansive sky. The [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) treatment of the panoramic sky at this elevated viewpoint required careful gradation from the near-horizontal edge of the observation point upward.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
C-24- View from the top of a pagoda was created by Takahashi Shotei (高橋松亭).
C-24- View from the top of a pagoda uses Bokashi, on woodblock print.
C-24- View from the top of a pagoda was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
C-24- View from the top of a pagoda depicts landscapes, temples & shrines, and pagodas.
