"Zōjōji sanmon 増上寺三門"(Triple Gate at Zojoji) - From the series "Eight Views of Tokyo - Kasamatsu Shirō (1898-1991) - Published by Unsodo - Japan

Technique : Original Woodblock Print
Artist : Kasamatsu Shirō (1898-1991)
Title : Zōjōji sanmon 増上寺三門"(Triple Gate at Zojoji)

A striking winter scene of the main gate of Zojoji Temple in Tokyo.
An impressive temple complex containing the tombs of Edo period shoguns.
Visitors stroll the grounds under umbrellas, and a small dog crosses the landscape in the lower left.
The imposing red gate towers above the figures, its tiled roof covered in snow and surrounded by pine trees.Snow falls silently against the grey winter sky.A beautifully detailed depiction of Zojoji Temple in winter.

First published in 1953.
This is a later edition, printed using the original woodblocks.
Printed by: Unsodo
Printmaker: Nagashima & Harada

Size : 41cm x 28cm.
condition : Unframed, Mint

Kasamatsu Shirō (1898-1991) was a Japanese painter.
One of the most prominent printmakers of the Shinhanga movement, Kasamatsu Shirō became famous both in Japan and abroad and is the best-known Japanese landscape painter of the 20th century.

Born in Tokyo, Shiro Kasamatsu began studying art at a young age with the painter Kaburagi Kiyokata.
He completed his first woodblock designs for Watanabe Shozaburo in 1919 after the publisher saw his paintings on exhibit.
Shiro designed shin-hanga prints for Watanabe for many years, becoming well known for his romantic landscapes of famous landmarks and his scenes of traditional Japanese life. From 1952 to 1960, he created more than one hundred woodblock designs for the Kyoto publisher Unsodo.

He also experimented with sosaku hanga or creative prints starting in the late 1950s, carving and printing his own designs. Shiro is regarded as one of the top shin-hanga woodblock print artists in Japan.

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