Dainan Gate in Mukden
- Date:
- 1937
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 40.4 × 27.5 cm
- Publisher:
- Yoshida Studio
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Typical Price
From Yoshida's later career (1935–1950), these prints show his technical mastery at full maturity. Later-decade prints slightly trail peak-period 1920s works at auction, but jizuri impressions of desirable subjects still command strong prices. Standard jizuri Japanese landscapes follow the dealer benchmark of approximately $2,149; Sacred Bridge, Nikko (1937) sold for $800 at Schmidt's Antiques for a pencil-signed example.
- Jizuri (artist-supervised) seal: $1,200–$3,500
- Studio edition (no jizuri): $600–$1,800
- Posthumous/family workshop reprint: $250–$700
Description
Mukden's Dainan Gate — one of the historic city gates of the former Qing imperial capital, now Shenyang — stands as a monumental sandstone archway that Yoshida depicted during his 1937 travels through Japanese-occupied Manchuria. The gate's heavy tiered tower, combining Chinese architectural forms with Manchurian building traditions, offered Yoshida an architectural subject quite unlike the Japanese shrine gates and pagodas he more typically rendered. The political circumstances of his visit — Mukden having been the flashpoint of the 1931 Manchurian Incident — are not registered in the serene architectural study, which treats the gate purely as a formal and historical object worth careful visual record.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Dainan Gate in Mukden was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1937.
Dainan Gate in Mukden uses Bokashi, Nishiki-e, and Moku-hanga, on color woodblock print.
Dainan Gate in Mukden was published by Yoshida Studio (1937).
Dainan Gate in Mukden depicts architecture.
Dainan Gate in Mukden measures 40.4 × 27.5 cm (Oban format).