Grave yard at Simoda Dio Zenge

by Wilhelm Heine

$850 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A finely atmospheric view of the cemetery and temple precinct at Shimoda, Japan one of Heine’s most evocative images from Graphic Scenes of the Japan Expedition. This plate shows the graveyard at the temple rendered not as a topographical prospect alone, but as a carefully staged nocturnal or dusk scene. The temple buildings occupy the middle ground, their broad tiled roofs framed by dense trees, stone lanterns, and upright funerary monuments. Small figures move through

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