Japanese Print by Yoshida Hiroshi, 吉田博 (YOSHIDA HIROSHI)

This numbered woodblock print from Hiroshi Yoshida's shin-hanga corpus is catalogued without an individual subject title. Yoshida's alpine and mountain landscape prints represent a substantial portion of his approximately 260 designs, reflecting his extensive travel in the Japanese Alps and, later, the Himalayas and the ranges of North America. His mountain compositions characteristically employ multi-block printing with delicate bokashi gradations to render atmospheric depth, the way light shifts across snow-covered peaks, and the textural contrast between exposed rock, conifer forest, and open sky. Yoshida personally directed carvers and printers at the Watanabe publishing house and later at his own family studio, maintaining close control over color registration and ink saturation. These numbered auction catalog prints, while lacking formal subject titles in preserved records, represent the breadth of his landscape output and are valued for the same technical precision and Western-influenced perspective that defines his documented works.