Miyazaki Genzoji Temple, Saitama Prefecture (Translation)
宫崎源藏寺 (崎玉縣) 昭和三十年 (Primary Title)
Kawase Hasui 川瀬巴水, Japanese, 1883 - 1957 (Artist)
Watanabe Shōzaburō 渡邊庄三郎, Japanese, 1885 - 1962 (Publisher)
In the summer of 1955, Hasui
traveled to Chichibu in Saitama Prefecture, sixty miles north of Tokyo. On a
rainy day, he visited the Genzoji, a 17th-century Zen Buddhist temple, where he
captured the moment when a woman carrying a child walked in front of the temple
gate. This two-story wooden structure features an extended sloping roof, lattice
windows, railings, and plaster walls, representing the old Japanese building
concept of bringing natural surroundings such as farmland and distant mountains
into the design. The bronze temple bell on the upper level, cast in 1705 for a
local shrine, was transferred to this temple in 1722.
Showa period (1926-1989)
巴水 Hasui
Artist's seal; Publisher's seal Watanabe Shōzaburō
宫崎源藏寺 ( 崎玉縣) 昭和三十年七月作
René and Carolyn Balcer Collection
Brown, Kendall. Water and Shadow: Kawase Hasui and Japanese Landscape Prints. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2014.
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