Modern | Sōsaku Hanga Woodblock Print
白川郷の屋並 (Houses of Shirakawa-Go) by Katsuyuki Nishijima depicts traditional gasshō-zukuri style houses - with their prayer shaped, thatched roofs. Designed to withstand considerable snowfall through winter months, the accompanying large attic space doubled as a workplace through the Edo to early Showa periods of Japan - typically as a space for the cultivation of silkworm and sericulture/silk production. 🌾🏠
- Year & Edition: 2020 · Ed. of 500 (signed & titled in pencil).
- Medium: Woodblock.
- Dimensions: Sheet W: 43.50 cm × H: 31.50 cm; Image W: 37.75 cm × H: 25.75 cm.
- Condition: Studio-fresh.
- Notes: Shirakawa-go (白川郷) and Gokayama (五箇山) are UNESCO World Heritage sites famed for their 17th-century gassho-zukuri (合掌造り) farmhouses - steep, prayer-hand roofs built to shed heavy snow and shelter silkworm-rearing attics.
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