Temple and shrine subjects are among the most consistently popular categories in Yoshida's output. Standard jizuri prints of temple subjects cluster around $2,149 (dealer price benchmark from 1stDibs), with Chion-in Temple Gate listed at $3,600 and Toshogu Shrine in standard jizuri condition at approximately $2,149. Night or seasonal variants of temple subjects command additional premiums.
The Daibutsu — Japan's great Buddha images, of which the most famous stand at Kamakura and Nara — is approached through temple gateways of monumental scale, and this 1940 print focuses on one such gate as both architectural subject and spiritual threshold. The niomon, or guardian-king gate, that typically precedes major Buddhist temple complexes frames the approach to the sacred interior with a drama that Yoshida found endlessly generative across his career. In this wartime print, the temple gate's permanence and spiritual authority carry particular resonance — it is a structure that has marked the boundary between the secular and sacred for centuries, indifferent to the turbulence of any given era.
伏見稲荷
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
Uji Byodoin no ichibu
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Diabutsu Temple Gate was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1940.
Diabutsu Temple Gate uses Bokashi, Nishiki-e, and Moku-hanga, on color woodblock print.
Diabutsu Temple Gate was published by Yoshida Studio (1940).
Diabutsu Temple Gate depicts temples & shrines and architecture.
Diabutsu Temple Gate measures 27.1 × 40.2 cm (Oban format).
