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.
Yoshida's 1933 depiction of Honolulu — likely its harbor, Diamond Head, or the palm-lined boulevards of then-Territory-of-Hawaii's capital — represents one of his Pacific-journey subjects from American travels. Honolulu in the early 1930s was both a significant port of call for transpacific voyagers and an American tropical paradise increasingly recognizable through tourism promotion. Yoshida's woodblock treatment applies his Japanese landscape sensibility to the sub-tropical light and distinctive skyline of the Pacific's most strategic city.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Honolulu was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1933.
Honolulu was published by Yoshida Studio (1933).
Honolulu depicts landscapes, seascapes, and travel scenes.
