Autumn in the Hyakka-en

Date:: 1926
Medium:: Color woodblock print
Format:: Oban
Publisher:: Yoshida Studio
Source:: Art Institute of Chicago

Typical Price

This 1920s print from the heart of Yoshida's jizuri period represents his mature shin-hanga technique. Standard jizuri prints of Japanese landscapes cluster around $2,149 (1stDibs dealer benchmark). The jizuri seal — indicating Yoshida personally supervised printing — is the single most important value driver, typically doubling the price over non-jizuri lifetime impressions.

Jizuri (artist-supervised) seal: $1,500–$4,000
Studio edition (no jizuri): $800–$2,000
Posthumous/family workshop reprint: $300–$800

Description

The Hyakka-en ("Garden of a Hundred Flowers") in Sumida, Tokyo, was famous for its autumn bush clover plantings and its association with classical Japanese poetry. Yoshida's 1926 print captures the garden in autumn's peak coloration, grasses and late-blooming flowers burning in russet and gold. The intimate garden scene demonstrates his equally confident handling of small-scale natural subjects alongside vast mountain landscapes, each receiving the same attentiveness to light, color, and seasonal mood.