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

Catalogued without a specific subject title, this print is among the numbered woodblock works in Hiroshi Yoshida's corpus. Yoshida made extended visits to North America — in 1899 and again in the early 1920s — and produced prints of Yosemite Valley, the Canadian Rockies, and the American Southwest. These Western landscape prints apply the traditional woodblock medium to terrain unlike Japan's: sheer granite cliffs, vast high-desert vistas, and ancient conifers rendered under open skies. Yoshida's compositional training and subsequent study of Western oil painting gave him the tools to render three-dimensional depth convincingly through aerial perspective and carefully graded bokashi. Multiple blocks — sometimes ten or more for a single image — were required to achieve the tonal range his Western-influenced eye demanded of the Japanese medium. The numbered designations in auction records reflect the absence of formal titles in institutional provenance documentation rather than any sequence within Yoshida's own published output.