Bivouac: Kitadake and Ainodake
- Date:
- 1928
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 27.3 × 40.6 cm
- Publisher:
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.
A high-mountain bivouac camp between Kitadake (3,193 m, Japan's second highest peak) and Ainodake (3,189 m) — both in the Minami Alps — provides the dramatic setting for this 1928 alpine print. Yoshida camped extensively in these ranges while preparing his mountain compositions, and the bivouac scene conveys the spartan reality of high-altitude mountaineering alongside its visual rewards: a view from the camping ground across ridges falling away into the haze of distant valleys.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Bivouac: Kitadake and Ainodake was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1928.
Bivouac: Kitadake and Ainodake was published by Yoshida Studio (1928).
Bivouac: Kitadake and Ainodake depicts landscapes and mountains.
Bivouac: Kitadake and Ainodake measures 27.3 × 40.6 cm (Oban format).
