Girl

Date:: 1927
Medium:: Woodblock print
Format:: Oban
Publisher:: Yoshida Studio
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Typical Price

This 1920s print from the heart of Yoshida's jizuri period represents his mature shin-hanga technique. Standard jizuri prints of Japanese landscapes cluster around $2,149 (1stDibs dealer benchmark). The jizuri seal — indicating Yoshida personally supervised printing — is the single most important value driver, typically doubling the price over non-jizuri lifetime impressions.

Jizuri (artist-supervised) seal: $1,500–$4,000
Studio edition (no jizuri): $800–$2,000
Posthumous/family workshop reprint: $300–$800

Description

A portrait study of a girl, this 1927 print — like the companion "Child" composition — demonstrates Yoshida's warmth and precision as a figurative artist. The subject is rendered with careful attention to the child's features and expression, the face given the same observational care he brought to mountain profiles and architectural details. The print places Yoshida within a long tradition of Japanese child portraiture while reflecting his Western academic training in the controlled rendering of human physiognomy.