The Great Gate at Shiba

Description

Kawase Hasui shows the Shiba Gate here, with a person cycling trough it, covered for a very short moment against the surrounding rain. The Great Gate at Shiba was one of the entrance gates to Zojoji temple in Tokyo. The prints by Kawase Hasui tend to show only glimpses of modernity, if at all. Here the wires and the cyclist are present. About a decade after the first edition of this design modernity would encroach further upon the scene, and the wooden gate would be replaced with a concrete one. This gate has survived the decades after however, and is still present today.