Great Temple in Madura (Madeyura no shinden)
Madeyura no shinden
- Date:
- 1931
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print; oban
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 27.4 × 39.3 cm
- Publisher:
- Yoshida Studio
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Typical Price
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.
- Jizuri (artist-supervised) seal: $1,500–$4,000
- Studio/posthumous edition: $400–$1,200
Description
The Meenakshi Amman Temple in Madurai — among the most spectacular examples of Dravidian temple architecture, its fourteen towering gopurams encrusted with thousands of painted stucco sculptures — made a profound visual impression on Yoshida during his 1931 India travels. This oban-format print captures the scale and extraordinary ornamental density of the temple complex, whose gopurams rise above the Tamil Nadu plains visible for miles in every direction. Yoshida's experience rendering the detailed carvings of Japanese Buddhist architecture prepared him for Madurai's visual extravagance, though the sheer quantity of figurative sculpture on the Dravidian towers surpassed anything he had encountered in Japan. The print is among the most ambitious architectural works from his India series.
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Featured in Collections
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Frequently Asked Questions
Great Temple in Madura (Madeyura no shinden) (Madeyura no shinden) was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1931.
Great Temple in Madura (Madeyura no shinden) uses Bokashi, Nishiki-e, and Moku-hanga, on color woodblock print; oban.
Great Temple in Madura (Madeyura no shinden) was published by Yoshida Studio (1931).
Great Temple in Madura (Madeyura no shinden) depicts temples & shrines.
Great Temple in Madura (Madeyura no shinden) measures 27.4 × 39.3 cm (Oban format).