From Yoshida's Kansai District series, documenting the temples, castles, and landscapes of Japan's cultural heartland. Named series membership adds collectible value, and the Kansai region's iconic subjects (Kyoto temples, Osaka landmarks, Nara deer parks) ensure broad collector appeal. Jizuri impressions from this series follow the standard benchmark of $1,500–$4,000 for well-documented Yoshida series prints.
Nara at evening carries a particular atmosphere — the ancient deer wandering unimpeded through the dusk, the great temple roofs darkening against a pale sky, the city settling into a quietude that its role as Japan's original imperial capital lends it. From the Kansai District series, this 1933 print captures the transition from day to night in one of Japan's most historically laden urban environments. Yoshida had depicted Nara subjects through multiple series and individual prints; his evening treatments use the failing light to dissolve the city's architectural detail into mood, letting the warm glow of lanterns and the cool blue of twilight sky carry the composition.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Evening in Nara, from the series "Kansai District" was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1933.
Yes — Evening in Nara, from the series "Kansai District" is part of the Kansai District series (print 1) by Hiroshi Yoshida.
Evening in Nara, from the series "Kansai District" uses Bokashi, Nishiki-e, and Moku-hanga, on color woodblock print.
Evening in Nara, from the series "Kansai District" was published by Yoshida Studio (1933).
Evening in Nara, from the series "Kansai District" depicts urban scenes and night scenes, set at Nara.
Evening in Nara, from the series "Kansai District" measures 27.2 × 40.4 cm (Oban format).
