{"id":26596,"date":"2024-02-12T16:30:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T16:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=26596"},"modified":"2024-02-12T15:22:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T15:22:58","slug":"fourteen-views-of-himeji-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2024\/02\/12\/fourteen-views-of-himeji-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourteen views of Himeji Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Himeji Castle, Evening (1926) by Hiroshi Yoshida.<\/em><\/p>\n

If you’ve ever seen Akira Kurosawa’s Ran<\/em> then you’ve seen Himeji Castle inside as well as out, a memorable sight not only for its vast size\u2014the castle is the largest in Japan\u2014but also for its brilliant white facade. Despite the building’s great age and importance it doesn’t seem to have been a popular subject for ukiyo-e<\/em> prints which makes me wonder if there was ever a prohibition against this. Or were castles an unpopular subject compared to the more familar views of shrines and temples? Whatever the reason, all the prints here are from 20th- and 21st-century artists showing the place in a variety of seasons and weathers. The castle also appears in Kurosawa’s Kagemusha<\/em>, a film I haven’t seen for many years. Time for a re-viewing, I think.<\/p>\n

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Himeji Castle (1930) by Hasui Kawase.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Himeji Castle (1942) by Toshi Yoshida.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Himeji Castle (1948) by Hasui Kawase.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Himeji Castle (c.1950s) by Tomikichiro Tokuriki.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Himeji Castle (1951) by Toshi Yoshida.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Himeji Castle (1952) by Mori Masamoto.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Evening at the Old Castle (1953) by Mori Masamoto.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Himeji Castle (1954) by Takeji Asano.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Spring Rain at Himeji Castle (1955) by Heigo Kimura.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Himeji Castle (1956) by Mori Masamoto.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Himeji Castle in Spring (1978) by Hashimoto Okiie.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Autumn at Himeji Castle (1978) by Hashimoto Okiie.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Himeji Castle (2004) by Paul Binnie.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Himeji Castle, Evening (1926) by Hiroshi Yoshida. If you’ve ever seen Akira Kurosawa’s Ran then you’ve seen Himeji Castle inside as well as out, a memorable sight not only for its vast size\u2014the castle is the largest in Japan\u2014but also for its brilliant white facade. Despite the building’s great age and importance it doesn’t seem … Continue reading “Fourteen views of Himeji Castle”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,2,7],"tags":[920,13319,11371,13318,12956,13316,12038,13317,11372,13315],"class_list":["post-26596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-film","tag-akira-kurosawa","tag-hashimoto-okiie","tag-hasui-kawase","tag-heigo-kimura","tag-hiroshi-yoshida","tag-mori-masamoto","tag-paul-binnie","tag-takeji-asano","tag-tomikichiro-tokuriki","tag-toshi-yoshida"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-6UY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}