From Yoshida's later career (1935–1950), these prints show his technical mastery at full maturity. Later-decade prints slightly trail peak-period 1920s works at auction, but jizuri impressions of desirable subjects still command strong prices. Standard jizuri Japanese landscapes follow the dealer benchmark of approximately $2,149; Sacred Bridge, Nikko (1937) sold for $800 at Schmidt's Antiques for a pencil-signed example.
Mukden — now Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning Province in northeastern China — held strategic and cultural significance as the former imperial capital of the Qing dynasty, and Yoshida visited during the politically charged late 1930s. This 1937 print records the commercial vitality of a Mukden market, its stalls and figures rendered with the observational clarity Yoshida brought to all his urban subjects. Unlike his landscape work, which tends toward stillness and solitude, the market scene embraces activity and human density — vendors, goods, and passersby — captured with a reportorial directness filtered through woodblock's inherent tendency toward the lyrical.
Woodblock print
c. 1833/34
Color woodblock print; oban
c. 1922
Color woodblock print
行商人
c. 1940
Color woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
A Market in Mukden was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1937.
A Market in Mukden uses Bokashi, Nishiki-e, and Moku-hanga, on color woodblock print.
A Market in Mukden was published by Yoshida Studio (1937).
A Market in Mukden depicts market scenes.
A Market in Mukden measures 26.9 × 26.5 cm (Oban format).
