{"product_id":"桂離宮-katsura-imperial-villa-yasuhiro-ishimoto","title":"桂離宮 Katsura Imperial Villa — Yasuhiro Ishimoto","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"204\" data-end=\"894\"\u003eYasuhiro Ishimoto’s \u003cem data-start=\"224\" data-end=\"248\"\u003eKatsura Imperial Villa\u003c\/em\u003e is a benchmark in the photographic representation of architecture, where the ancient rhythms of Kyoto’s imperial retreat meet the precision of modernist photographic vision. First produced in the 1950s and expanded with a second series in 1981, this edition, published by the Kochi Prefectural Museum of Art in 2010, reasserts the relevance of Ishimoto’s project with immaculate monochrome printing and redesigned layout. Trained at the Institute of Design in Chicago under Moholy-Nagy’s Bauhaus lineage, Ishimoto brought a unique dual perspective to Katsura — an ability to see Japanese space through both native memory and foreign abstraction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"896\" data-end=\"1490\"\u003eThe resulting images are lucid studies of shadow, interval, and proportion — the shoji screen, the engawa corridor, the tilt of tiled roofs — rendered with a near-spiritual detachment. This is not documentary in a conventional sense, but a visual essay in structural grace. The book, long out of print and now hard to locate, is a crucial object for readers of Japanese aesthetics, architectural modernism, and the convergence of East\/West visual languages. It stands alongside the architectural visions of Ezra Stoller and the spatial poetics of Guido Guidi, but is resolutely its own lexicon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1492\" data-end=\"2007\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1492\" data-end=\"1511\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"1511\" data-end=\"1514\"\u003eTitle: Katsura Imperial Villa (桂離宮)\u003cbr data-start=\"1549\" data-end=\"1552\"\u003eArtist \/ Author: Yasuhiro Ishimoto\u003cbr data-start=\"1586\" data-end=\"1589\"\u003eDate: 2010 (First printing: May 20, 2010; Second printing: June 25, 2014)\u003cbr data-start=\"1662\" data-end=\"1665\"\u003eTechnique \/ Printing Method: Monochrome offset\u003cbr data-start=\"1711\" data-end=\"1714\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Softcover with transparent dust jacket\u003cbr data-start=\"1772\" data-end=\"1775\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eDimensions (cm): Approx. 30 x 22\u003cbr data-start=\"1807\" data-end=\"1810\"\u003eLanguage: Japanese (with some English)\u003cbr data-start=\"1848\" data-end=\"1851\"\u003ePages: Not stated (extensive)\u003cbr data-start=\"1880\" data-end=\"1883\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor: Kochi Prefectural Museum of Art \/ Tsukuba Photo Center\u003cbr data-start=\"1957\" data-end=\"1960\"\u003eISBN: 978-4-9902529-2-3\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1366\" data-end=\"1788\"\u003eCondition: MINT\u003cbr data-start=\"1760\" data-end=\"1763\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52660208337234,"sku":null,"price":250.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/TODWEBB_copy_copy_1_40da29bb-8549-40e1-9917-732ef0a2ef00.jpg?v=1770575314","url":"https:\/\/thedarwin.es\/products\/%e6%a1%82%e9%9b%a2%e5%ae%ae-katsura-imperial-villa-yasuhiro-ishimoto","provider":"DaRWIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}