Ishimoto Yasuhiro
The Old Shoin, viewed from the north-east

The Old Shoin, viewed from the north-east

© Kochi Prefecture, Ishimoto Yasuhiro Photo Center

The Old Shoin, viewed from the north-east
The Old Shoin, viewed from the north-east
CultureJapanese
Titles
  • The Old Shoin, viewed from the north-east
  • from the portfolio: Katsura, 1989
Date1981–1982, printed 1989
PlaceJapan
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 19 7/8 × 15 15/16 in. (50.5 × 40.5 cm)
Sheet: 22 × 18 in. (55.9 × 45.7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Louisa Stude Sarofim
Object number2000.4.2
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Trained
at the Institute of Design in Chicago, an outgrowth of the Bauhaus, Yasuhiro
Ishimoto brought a modernist eye to his photographs of the Katsura Imperial
Villa, a 17th-century teahouse and garden just outside Kyoto. His photographic
aesthetic was perfectly attuned to the geometries of post and lintel
construction, tatami mats, paper screens, and sliding walls, elements of
traditional Japanese architecture that profoundly influenced modern art and
architecture in the West.




Provenance[Photo Gallery International, Tokyo]; purchased by MFAH, 2000.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed in pencil on verso, lower center: "Yas Ishimoto"

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Rooms of the Old Shoin, viewed from the east
Ishimoto Yasuhiro
1981–1982, printed 1989
Gelatin silver print
2000.4.3
Middle Shoin, and the New Goten, viewed from the east
Ishimoto Yasuhiro
1981–1982, printed 1989
Gelatin silver print
2000.4.6
Formal Stone Pavement, stone and moss in front of the Main Entrance of the Old Shoin
Ishimoto Yasuhiro
1953–1954, printed 1989
Gelatin silver print
2000.4.4
Main Room, right, and the Second Room, left, of the Middle Shoin
Ishimoto Yasuhiro
1981–1982, printed 1989
Gelatin silver print
2000.4.5
The Goten, viewed from the south-west
Ishimoto Yasuhiro
1981–1982, printed 1989
Gelatin silver print
2000.4.15
Garden Viewed from the western part of the Shokintei Pavilion
Ishimoto Yasuhiro
1981–1982, printed 1989
Gelatin silver print
2000.4.11
The Shokatei Pavilion viewed from the west
Ishimoto Yasuhiro
1981–1982, printed 1989
Gelatin silver print
2000.4.12
Stepping Stones leading from the Cycad Hill to the Waiting Bench
Ishimoto Yasuhiro
1953–1954, printed 1989
Gelatin silver print
2000.4.9
[four model horses viewed from rug]
1950s–1960s
Gelatin silver print
2014.406
Lower part of Shoji, Fusuma and the column of the New Goten
Ishimoto Yasuhiro
1981–1982, printed 1989
Gelatin silver print
2000.4.7
Formal Stone Pavement in front of the Waiting Bench
Ishimoto Yasuhiro
1954, printed 1989
Gelatin silver print
2000.4.8