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

Catalogued under a generic title, this Yoshida print may represent one of his European subjects — compositions produced from sketches made during his travels to Europe in the late 1920s. Yoshida depicted Western architectural subjects including Alpine villages, cathedral facades, and Mediterranean harbors using the woodblock medium, adapting the technical parameters of washi printing to render stone, brick, and plaster textures through tightly registered color blocks. His European prints are relatively less common than his Asian and American landscape series, lending individually catalogued impressions additional interest for specialists in his broader travel output. The Yoshida family workshop maintained the printing blocks for many of his compositions after his death; posthumous impressions from original blocks are generally distinguishable from lifetime prints by differences in paper stock, ink character, and the form of seals applied at the margin.