Himeji Castle -- Evening, Taishô period, dated 1926?

Himeji Castle — designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site and Japan's finest surviving example of early Edo-period castle architecture — is captured here in evening light, the "White Heron Castle" glowing against a darkening sky. The c. 1926 date and Taisho-period attribution place this at the very beginning of Yoshida's main shin-hanga period. The castle's complex, multi-roofed keep system and gleaming white plaster walls presented one of the most photographically familiar architectural subjects in Japan, which Yoshida renders with his own interpretive light.