Main Gate of the Grand Temple, Nikko - Louis Gonse Art Print
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Climb the stone steps and the Kara Mon rises out of cedar shadow, a chalk-white Chinese gate guarding the Tama-Gaki of the mausoleum of Iye-Yasu at Nikko. Here Tokugawa Ieyasu sleeps as a god, renamed the Great Avatar Illuminating the East. His grandson Iemitsu rebuilt Toshogu Shrine in 1636 with a warlord's appetite for ornament. Gofun, crushed from oyster shell, once coated this gate like frost.
This vintage wood engraving strips Nikko of gold leaf. What survives is obsession, cut in ink. Black hatching crawls over every bracket. Hollyhock crests of the Tokugawa clan stud the roof like rivets hammered into dynasty. Dragons coil up both pillars, scale by scale under the burin. The cusped karahafu gable swells like a held tide.
Look through the doorway. A bell rope hangs still, waiting for a pilgrim's tug. Cryptomeria foliage scratches the sky above in nervous loops.
Edo-period Japanese shrine architecture, pressed flat into a black and white art print. Today the Shrines and Temples of Nikko hold UNESCO World Heritage status. This vintage architectural art print lingers in the older moment of first sight. Black ink on bone paper. A gate still waiting for a stranger's hand.
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