Udaipur Castle (Udaipuru no shiro)

Udaipur, the "City of Lakes" in Rajasthan, provided Yoshida with one of his most dramatic architectural subjects on his 1931 tour of India. The great lakeside palace rises in pale stone above the waters of Lake Pichola, its tiered facades and domed pavilions reflected below in the still surface. Yoshida's Western training in perspective and light modeling gives the fortress an imposing monumentality while the refined color printing captures the warm ochres and shadows of Rajput stonework in late afternoon sun.