The edition type is the primary value driver for Yoshida prints. The jizuri seal — indicating the artist personally supervised every aspect of printing — typically commands 2–3× the price of posthumous reprints. Standard jizuri prints of Japanese landscapes cluster around $2,149 at dealer level (1stDibs benchmark). PBS Antiques Roadshow valued a pair of lifetime prints at $2,500 total (~$1,250 each) for non-jizuri examples.
The Chikugo River — the longest river in Kyushu, flowing through the Chikugo Plain that was Yoshida's homeland — appears in this undated print as a broad, unhurried waterway embedded in the agricultural landscape of his origins. Yoshida returned to the Chikugo repeatedly across his career, rendering its moods at different seasons and times of day with an intimacy born of deep familiarity. The river provided him with the quiet, inland counterpoint to the dramatic seascapes and mountain compositions for which he is better known — a subject where personal memory inflected the artistic observation. Its wide, slow-moving character gave him space to explore the subtle gradations of light on flat water that his jizuri technique excelled at rendering.
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.
Chikugo River was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博).
Chikugo River uses Bokashi, Nishiki-e, and Moku-hanga, on woodblock print.
Chikugo River was published by Yoshida Studio.
Chikugo River depicts landscapes and rivers & lakes.
