Evening in a Hot Spring
- Date:
- 1939
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Yoshida Studio
- Source:
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 1939 print depicts a figure bathing in a natural hot spring at evening — an onsen scene that combines Yoshida's mastery of atmospheric light with the intimate warmth of a quintessentially Japanese subject. The steam rising from the water, the fading sky reflected in the pool's surface, and the nude figure in repose together create a composition of rare sensory completeness. Yoshida approached figure work with the same observational discipline he brought to landscapes, informed by his Western academic training. The onsen, as a place where the natural and the human intersect in warmth and vulnerability, gave him material well suited to his dual artistic inheritance.
Mutsu Tsuta onsen
1919
Color woodblock print; oban
1943
Color woodblock print
Autumn 1920
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
1924
Color woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Evening in a Hot Spring was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1939.
Evening in a Hot Spring was published by Yoshida Studio (1939).
Evening in a Hot Spring depicts nude and night scenes.
