Kikyo-Mon Gate
by Kasamatsu Shiro (1898–1991)
€140.00
- Type
- Original woodblock print
- First edition
- 1955
- This impression
- 2022
- Image size
- 36.5 × 24.0 cm
- Publisher
- Unsodo
- Printer
- Harada
- Carver
- Nagashima
Description
The Kikyo-Mon Gate (or Kikyo-gate) is part of the Edo castle, which housed various shoguns and later became part of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Kasamatsu Shiro shows it here on a tranquil day with only a few birds in sight, very similar to how one might encounter it today.