Derii no Juma Mashiddo Jama Masjid Delhi 1931 by Hiroshi Yoshida Hokusai It sits at the heart

It sits at the heart of the Die Brücke project: to strip representation down to its raw essentials and let feeling drive every formal decision

creating depth through atmosphere rather than line alone

Pencil grain moves through the flat colour areas with an easy confidence

It belongs to a tradition of images that were never quite serious and never quite jokes

Derii no Juma Mashiddo Jama Masjid Delhi 1931 by Hiroshi Yoshida Hokusai It sits at the heartDerii no Juma Mashiddo renders the Jama Masjid of Delhi with the composed reverence Hiroshi Yoshida brought to every landmark of his 1931 India journey. The mosque's red sandstone and white marble domes are set against a luminous sky, the geometry of Mughal architecture observed through the atmospheric sensibility of the shin hanga tradition. Yoshida does not flatten the scene into surface pattern; he reads the structure as light holding form, letting