Cryptomeria Avenue (Later printing by Toshi Yoshida)
- Date:
- 1937
- 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.
This 1937 cryptomeria avenue print, posthumously issued by Toshi Yoshida, belongs to the same subject as the artist's other cedar avenue compositions. The later printing by Toshi indicates sustained collector interest in this imagery long after Hiroshi's death in 1950, with the Yoshida family workshop maintaining the original blocks and printing them to the same demanding standards Hiroshi had established. The towering Sugi cedars — living architectural columns — remain among the most powerful recurring subjects in Yoshida's nature repertoire.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Cryptomeria Avenue (Later printing by Toshi Yoshida) was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1937.
Cryptomeria Avenue (Later printing by Toshi Yoshida) was published by Yoshida Studio (1937).
Cryptomeria Avenue (Later printing by Toshi Yoshida) depicts urban scenes and trees.
