Farmhouse
- Date:
- 1946
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 27.8 × 40.8 cm
- Publisher:
- Yoshida Studio
- Source:
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
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.
A postwar farmhouse composition from 1946 — produced just four years before Yoshida's death — shows the artist's sustained engagement with Japan's rural landscapes through the upheaval of the Pacific War and its aftermath. A traditional thatched or tiled farmhouse (minka) sits amid its rural surroundings, the composition conveying the quiet endurance of the agricultural landscape that survived the war relatively unchanged. The late date gives the work a particular poignancy as documentation of traditional rural Japan at the threshold of rapid postwar modernization.
Noka no aki (Miyagi ken Ayashi
1946
Color woodblock print
Woodblock print
1956
Color woodblock print
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Farmhouse was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1946.
Farmhouse was published by Yoshida Studio (1946).
Farmhouse depicts village scenes.
Farmhouse measures 27.8 × 40.8 cm (Oban format).
