Temple
- Date:
- 1953
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Dimensions:
- 19.5 × 27.3 cm
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
$500–$4,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Yamaguchi's contemplative, semi-abstract style has a niche following. Condition and impression quality are key factors.
Temple, a woodblock print from 1953, depicts a Japanese religious structure — Buddhist or Shinto — with the formal directness of a title that offers no qualifying location or season. For Yamaguchi, "temple" as subject is likely an opportunity for architectural abstraction: the geometry of gate and hall, the layered eaves of pagoda or main hall, the enclosed sacred space and its relationship to the natural world beyond the walls. The 1953 date places this in the early postwar period when temples served as anchors of cultural continuity amid physical reconstruction.
伏見稲荷
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Color woodblock print; oban
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Uji Byodoin no ichibu
1921
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Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Temple was created by Gen Yamaguchi (山口源) in 1953.
Temple depicts temples & shrines.
Temple measures 19.5 × 27.3 cm.
![[abstract composition with diagonal woodgrain] by Gen Yamaguchi](https://1.api.artsmia.org/800/135949.jpg)