Object Details
- Label
- Yoshida traveled by train to Madurai (Madura) in the present-day Indian state of Tamil Nadu where he visited the great temple dedicated to the Hindu goddess Minakshi, and her husband, Shiva. Built in the seventeenth century, the temple is entered through long corridors. Here the artist depicts the area just inside the entrance to the temple, where bright daylight gives partial illumination to the stone pillars in the forms of a Yali, a supernatural lionlike animal. Yoshida's fascination with rendering light and darkness is clearly expressed in his laborious printing of a layered color to reproduce the effect of natual light falling on the monumental stone carvings.
- Provenance
- To 1996
- Henry Edwin Robison (1913-2008), Palo Alto, CA, to 1996
- From 1996
- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, given by Henry Edwin Robison in 1996
- Collection
- National Museum of Asian Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Yoshida Hiroshi: Japanese Prints of India and Southeast Asia (August 1 to October 17, 1999)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Henry Edwin Robison (1913-2008)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Artist
- Yoshida Hiroshi 吉田博 (1876-1950)
- Date
- 1931
- Period
- Showa era
- Credit Line
- Gift of H. Ed Robison in memory of Katherine W. Robison
- Medium
- Ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 40.6 x 27.5 cm (16 x 10 13/16 in)
- Type
