Hodakadake

Date:: 1926
Medium:: Woodblock print
Format:: Oban
Publisher:: Yoshida Studio
Source:: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

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

Hodakadake rises as one of the most dramatic peaks in the Northern Japan Alps, and Yoshida captured its towering rock faces and snowfields with the atmospheric precision that defined his shin-hanga practice. Printed in 1926 — a banner year during which he produced the acclaimed Japanese Alps series — this view transforms the mountain's raw geological force into something meditative and sublime. Yoshida's training in Western oil painting gave him an instinctive feel for light on stone, and his jizuri self-printing technique allowed him to modulate the subtle gradations of sky that frame the summit with exceptional control.