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

A numbered woodblock print from Hiroshi Yoshida's output, catalogued in auction records without a formal subject title. Yoshida's river and waterfall subjects draw on a long tradition in Japanese landscape art, but he recast these subjects through direct field observation and Western compositional training. His waterfall prints — including extended series depicting falls in the Japanese Alps and in Korea — use overlapping pale-blue and white block passes to render cascading water as luminous forms against dark rock faces. The technical challenge is to maintain clean edges between moving water and stone while building the translucency of spray through transparent pigment layers. River scenes similarly leverage bokashi gradients across water surfaces to capture the shifting tonal range of light on moving water at different hours of day, a concern that reflects Yoshida's sustained interest in the effects of natural illumination across landscape subjects.