Kailasa Temple, Ellora

Object Details

• Artist

  Yoshida Hiroshi 吉田博 (1876-1950)

• Label

  After stopping in Bombay, Yoshida traveled by car to the cave temples of Ellora in the present-day Indian state of Maharashtra. The temples represent three major religious traditions: Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain. The Kailasa Temple, dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva, was carved from the gray basalt that forms the hills in this region. Yoshida's print depicts the courtyard at the entrance of the temple where visitors rest in the shade. Deep shadows darken the carved face of the temple, which was built in the eighth century in a massive effort that required removal of some two hundred thousand tons of stone over more than a century. Yoshida's inscription at the bottom of the print in English attests that he applied for official permission to make sketches at the site.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Yoshida Hiroshi: Japanese Prints of India and Southeast Asia (August 1 to October 17, 1999)

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Horowitz

• Type

  Print

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• Date

  1930s

• Name

  Yoshida, Hiroshi

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Art, Animals, Showa era (1926 - 1989), Temple, Japanese Art, Caves, Shiva, Elephants

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Prints