Sutra Depository at Iwayaji Temple, Aichi Prefecture
- Date:
- 1940
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
$500–$8,000. Common later works: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: His enormous output (lived to 102) means most works are accessible. Early black-and-white prints are most valued.
The sutra depository at Iwayaji Temple in Aichi Prefecture — a cliff-face temple complex where a small architectural structure has been built into the living rock — is rendered in Hiratsuka's direct woodblock in 1940. The building's integration with the cliff face, wedged between stone surfaces rather than standing freely, makes it architecturally unique. Hiratsuka's print emphasizes this unusual relationship between built structure and geological formation.
伏見稲荷
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
Uji Byodoin no ichibu
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Sutra Depository at Iwayaji Temple, Aichi Prefecture was created by Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一) in 1940.
Sutra Depository at Iwayaji Temple, Aichi Prefecture depicts temples & shrines and religious.
