Kiyomizudo In Ueno — 上野清水道

Medium:: Woodblock print
Format:: Oban
Publisher:: Doi Sadaichi
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Published by Watanabe Shozaburo

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Typical Price

Koitsu's daytime landscapes and non-nocturnal scenes are less common on the primary market but still reflect his mastery of atmosphere and color. Values have risen steadily over the past decade.

Later/posthumous printings: $300–$1,000
Lifetime editions, good condition: $1,000–$3,000
Rare subjects or first editions: $3,000–$6,000

Description

Kiyomizudo in Ueno Park is a small octagonal hall modeled on Kyoto's famous Kiyomizudera, built in the early seventeenth century by the temple complex of Kan'eiji. From its modest stage above Shinobazu Pond, the hall commanded a view similar to Kyoto's great cliff-top temple, making it a miniature sacred duplicate in the heart of old Edo. Koitsu renders the approach to the hall — its stone steps, paper lanterns, and the latticed eaves of the hall itself — in the intimate atmospheric mode he favored for smaller sacred structures.