Yasaka Pagoda

The Yasaka Pagoda — the five-story Hokan-ji pagoda in the Higashiyama district of Kyoto, rising above the tile rooftops of the streets below and visible from across the city — is Tokuriki's subject in this standalone print, the landmark pagoda rendered with the precise attention to architectural form that characterizes his best work. The Yasaka Pagoda is among Kyoto's most-depicted structures, its silhouette against the Higashiyama hills providing a compositional anchor for countless views of the city's eastern districts. Tokuriki returns to it repeatedly across his long career.