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 five-story pagoda (goju-no-to) of Kyoto's Toji or Ninna-ji temple rises through this 1942 composition with a quiet authority — its layered eaves ascending in diminishing rhythms against an open sky. Yoshida depicted pagoda architecture throughout his career, drawn to the structural logic of these towers and to the way their silhouettes anchored landscape compositions. Printed during the Pacific War, this work belongs to a period when Yoshida turned increasingly toward Japanese cultural subjects as international travel became impossible. The pagoda's permanence — a structure that had survived centuries of fire, earthquake, and upheaval — carries implicit weight in the wartime context.
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.
Pagoda in Kyoto- Goju no To was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1942.
Pagoda in Kyoto- Goju no To was published by Yoshida Studio (1942).
Pagoda in Kyoto- Goju no To depicts temples & shrines and pagodas, set at Kyoto.
