Stone Buddha "Vishnu" Yungkang Cave Temple, Mongolia
- Date:
- 1949
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
$500–$8,000. Common later works: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: His enormous output (lived to 102) means most works are accessible. Early black-and-white prints are most valued.
The Yungang Grottoes' Vishnu figure — identified as Buddha Vishnu, reflecting the Yungang complex's syncretic blending of Hindu and Buddhist iconography under Central Asian influence — is rendered in Hiratsuka's 1949 woodblock. The cave temples at Datong preserve images of remarkable cultural complexity, and Hiratsuka's rendering of this figure captures its weathered stone mass with the patient precision of his architectural documentation.
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.
Stone Buddha "Vishnu" Yungkang Cave Temple, Mongolia was created by Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一) in 1949.
Stone Buddha "Vishnu" Yungkang Cave Temple, Mongolia depicts temples & shrines and religious.
