Hodaka Yoshida

1926-1995

Konin Buddha
(Koninbutsu)

self-carved, self-printed; titled in penciled kanji on the bottom left corner, Konin Buddah, signed and dated in pencil at lower right, Hodaka Yoshida, 1954

22 5/8 by 16 1/2 in., 57.5 by 42 cm

Hodaka Yoshida married fellow-artist Chizuko Inoue in 1953, and they spent their honeymoon in Kyoto and Nara, both locations replete with cultural sites including several ancient Buddhist temples. The trip fueled Hodaka's second but brief period of work producing a group of fifteen prints in 1954 devoted to Buddhist imagery.

Provenance:
Yoshida Family Collection

References:
Oliver Statler, Modern Japanese Prints: An Art Reborn, 1959, pp. 169-170
Eugene M. Skibbe, Yoshida Hodaka: Magic, Artifact, and Art, in A Japanese Legacy: Four Generations of Yoshida Family Artists, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2002, pp. 110-121; no. 75 (similar work from Hodaka's Buddhist period)
Hodaka Yoshida: Walls of Wonder, Mitaka City Gallery of Art, 2019, p. 40, cat. no. 17

(inv. no. C-3577)

price: $700