Canal in Osaka
- Date:
- 1941
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Yoshida Studio
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 network of canals — a legacy of its role as Japan's commercial capital since the Naniwa period — is captured here in 1941 as a working waterway still lined with traditional wooden warehouses and moored craft. The composition likely shows one of the inner city canals such as the Dotonbori or Nagahori, their stone embankments reflecting the late afternoon light. Yoshida documents the merchant city's traditional face at a historical moment when war and modernization were rapidly transforming it.
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.
Canal in Osaka was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1941.
Canal in Osaka was published by Yoshida Studio (1941).
Canal in Osaka depicts rivers & lakes, set at Osaka.
