Temple with mounds of mums on a riverbank
by Yuhan Ito
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
by Yuhan Ito
Key value factors: Edition order (first Watanabe/Doi printing vs. posthumous reprints) is crucial. Snow scenes, night views, and bijin-ga typically command premiums. Publisher seals and artist signatures authenticate first editions.
A temple compound edges a riverbank where chrysanthemums bloom in dense autumn mounds — white, yellow, and rust — in this richly seasonal composition by Yuhan Ito. The chrysanthemum is the imperial flower of Japan, its autumn blooming a traditional occasion for garden viewing and quiet contemplation, and Ito sets it here against the steady architecture of a temple to emphasize the contrast between the flowers' fleeting glory and the permanence of the ancient hall behind them. The composition finds its poetry in this confrontation of transience and permanence.
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.
Temple with mounds of mums on a riverbank was created by Yuhan Ito (伊藤雄半).
Temple with mounds of mums on a riverbank depicts landscapes and temples & shrines.
