About This Print
Another large print by Takahashi depicting one his beloved Kyoto gardens. Perhaps an abstraction of Kyoto's Jakko-in Temple which has been a nunnery since the 12th century or just the artist's conception of a formal garden within a temple/nunnery?
Catalogue Raisonné Entry
#427 - Catalogue Raisonné
庭(尼寺) [NIWA (Nunnery)]
須坂版画美術館収蔵 [Suzaka hanga bijutsukan shūzō,
Suzaka Hanga Museum collection located in Suzaka, Nagano]
(Rikio Takahashi, The Woodblock Prints published by Abe Publishing LTD., 1998)
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #1692 |
| Title | NIWA (Nunnery) 庭 (尼寺) |
| Series | |
| Catalogue Raisonné | Number 427 |
| Artist | Takahashi Rikio (1917-1998) |
| Signature | Rikio Takahashi - Pencil signed by artist |
| Seal | none |
| Date | 1985 |
| Edition | 24 of 50 |
| Publisher | self-published |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | excellent |
| Genre | sosaku-hanga (creative print) |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Format | |
| H x W Paper | 35 7/8 x 23 5/8 in. (91.1 x 60 cm) |
| H x W Image | 32 x 20 1/16 in. (81.3 x 51 cm) |
| Collections This Print | Suzaka Hanga Museum (Suzaka, Nagano) |
| Reference Literature | See bibliography on Rikio Takahashi page. |
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