About This Print
One of the artist's 14 prints created during his lifetime, picturing visitors on the balconies of Kinkaku temple in Kyoto during winter.Entry in the original Toledo Museum of Art 1930 Catalog:
125 SNOW AT KINKAKUJI (Kinkakuji no Yuki)Snowscape in grey, blue and dark green. Temple in two tones of grey against snow-covered trees; blue water faintly reflects building and trees. Visitors to temple make spots of color, with blue, green, brown and light orange kimono. Large tree at right in grey, black and green.
Signed, “Suizan;” seal, “Sato Shotaro Han” (Sato Shotaro, publisher). Margin, “Kinkakuji no Yuki” (Kinkakuji in Snow). Edition, 200 impressions. Blocks cut by Mayeda; printed by Oiwa, 1924. 10 5/8” x 15 15/32”
Kinkakuji (Rokuon-ji)
Source: Website of Welcome to Kyoto http://www.pref.kyoto.jp/visitkyoto/en/theme/sites/shrines/w_heritage/13/
Rokuon-ji Temple was originally built as a villa by Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, whohad taken possession of a mountain villa of Saionji Temple in 1397. It was convertedinto a temple after Yoshimitsu's death. Officially named Rokuonji Temple, thistemple is famous both in Japan and abroad as a symbol of Kitayama culture. TheKinkaku, or "Golden Pavilion," was built as the Shariden. Covered with gold, theimage of the pavilion, which stands at the edge of Kyokochi pond, is reflectedin the water. Major repair work performed in 1987 has further enhanced its brilliance.
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #1014 | ||
| Title or Description |  | ||
| Series | New Selection of Noted Places of Kyoto (Shinsen Kyōto meisho) [also seen translated as "Select Views of Kyoto, Second Series" (Shinsen Kyōto meisho dainishū)] | ||
| Artist | Miki Suizan (1887-1957) | ||
| Signature |  | ||
| Seal | no artist's seal | ||
| Publication Date | 1924 | ||
| Publisher |
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| Edition | 1st edition of 200 prints (unnumbered) | ||
| Carver | Maeda Kentaro | ||
| Printer | Ōiwa Tokuzō | ||
| Impression | excellent | ||
| Colors | excellent | ||
| Condition | excellent - trimmed to image on left and bottom as all copies of this print seem to be; mounting remnants on verso | ||
| Genre | shin hanga | ||
| Miscellaneous | |||
| Format | horizontal oban | ||
| H x W Paper | 10 7/8 x 16 in. (27.6 x 40.6 cm) | ||
| H x W Image | 10 5/8 x 15 1/2 in. (27 x 39.46 cm) | ||
| Literature | Fresh Impressions: Early Modern Japanese Prints, Carol M. Putney, et. al., Toledo Museum of Art, 2014, p. 176-177; Modern Japanese Prints, Dorothy Blair, The Toledo Art Museum 1997, cat. 125; The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s, John Dower, et. al., MFA, Publications, Boston, 2012, p. 76, pl. 75. | ||
| Collections This Print | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 38.722; Honolulu Museum of Art 19287; National Diet Library (a portfolio of the artist's 14 prints) http://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1014915 |
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