HIROSHI YOSHIDA: CHION-IN TEMPLE GATE

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HIROSHI YOSHIDA: CHION-IN TEMPLE GATE By Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950), signed Yoshida and sealed Hiroshi Japan, dated 1935 Color woodblock print and gouache on paper. Horizontal oban. Signed Yoshida and sealed Hiroshi, further signed in Roman script to the outer-lower margin Hiroshi Yoshida. Title Romon (Chion-in Temple Gate), from the series Sakura hachidai (Eight Scenes of Cherry Blossoms), inscribed with the English title “Chion-in Temple Gate” in Roman script to the outer-lower margin. SIZE of the sheet 27.1 x 39.5 cm The Chion-in temple in Kyoto is the head temple of the Pure Land Sect (Jodo-shu), founded by Honen in the 12th century. Its gigantic main gate, declared a National Treasure by the Japanese government, is one of the largest temple gates in Japan. The coats and jackets worn by the visitors who climb the massive stairs suggest that even though the cherries are in bloom, the weather is still a bit chilly. Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950) began his artistic training with his adoptive father in Kurume, Fukuoka prefecture. Around the age of twenty, he left Kurume to study with Soritsu Tamura in Kyoto, subsequently moving to Tokyo and the tutelage of Shotaro Koyama. Yoshida studied Western-style painting, winning many exhibition prizes, and making several trips to the United States, Europe and North Africa selling his watercolors and oil paintings. While highly successful as an oil painter and watercolor artist, Hiroshi Yoshida turned to woodblock printmaking upon learning of the Western world’s infatuation with ukiyo-e. While widely traveled and knowledgeable of Western aesthetics, he maintained an allegiance to traditional Japanese techniques and traditions. Museum comparison: A closely related print is in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, accession number 49.130. Auction comparison: Compare a closely related print at Christie’s, Japanese and Korean Art, 16 September 2003, New York, lot 54 (sold for USD 2,031 or approx. EUR 3,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing).

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