An Osaka Canal
- Date:
- 1941
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 19.5 × 25.4 cm
- Publisher:
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.
Osaka's historic canal network — the waterways that made the city Japan's commercial capital for centuries — is captured here in 1941 in one of Yoshida's late urban studies. Stone embankments, moored boats, and the reflective surface of canal water form the composition, the city's merchant character visible in the working waterfront. This and related Osaka canal prints represent Yoshida's continued interest in documenting the traditional face of Japanese cities even as industrialization and wartime conditions reshaped them.
Nikko Chuzenjiko
1930
Color woodblock print; oban
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Niigata Gosaibori
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
An Osaka Canal was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1941.
An Osaka Canal was published by Yoshida Studio (1941).
An Osaka Canal depicts rivers & lakes, set at Osaka.
An Osaka Canal measures 19.5 × 25.4 cm (Oban format).
