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.
Lake Biwa — Japan's largest freshwater lake, adjacent to Kyoto in Shiga Prefecture — is the setting for this 1933 garden composition, a private or public garden landscaped to frame views of the lake and the Hira Mountains beyond. Yoshida positions the viewer within curated nature looking outward to wild nature, a tension central to the Japanese garden aesthetic. The print demonstrates his ability to render the layered spatial complexity of a garden — near plantings, water features, and distant views — in the flat medium of woodblock.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Garden by Lake Biwa was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1933.
Garden by Lake Biwa was published by Yoshida Studio (1933).
Garden by Lake Biwa depicts music, landscapes, and rivers & lakes.
Garden by Lake Biwa measures 26 × 40 cm (Oban format).
