A Junk, printing order no. 2

This second printing variant of the Chinese junk series allows comparison with Plate No. 4 to trace how Yoshida modulated color relationships and ink densities between editions, a practice central to his jizuri self-publishing approach. The junk's characteristic squared sail and high stern are the compositional focus, the vessel rendered with the same maritime precision he brought to all nautical subjects encountered during his extensive travels through Chinese coastal waters in the late 1930s.