Bamboo Grove
- Date:
- 1939
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 39.4 × 26.7 cm
- Publisher:
- Yoshida Studio
- Source:
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
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.
A bamboo grove rendered in close study rather than as distant landscape backdrop, this 1939 print brings the viewer inside the forest's vertical rhythms — culms rising in overlapping layers, leaves filtering light into shifting lacework above. Yoshida's experience painting forests across Asia, from the cryptomeria avenues of Nikko to the bamboo hills of Kyoto and China, informs every tonal gradation here. The work belongs to his late period of intimate nature studies, a deliberate counterpoint to his panoramic mountain compositions.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Bamboo Grove was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1939.
Bamboo Grove was published by Yoshida Studio (1939).
Bamboo Grove depicts trees.
Bamboo Grove measures 39.4 × 26.7 cm (Oban format).
