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.
Lanterns and Maples was produced in 1963, among the final works of Yoshida's long career, and it carries the reflective quality of a master looking back at the motifs that had sustained him. Stone lanterns set against autumnal maple foliage is a quintessentially Japanese compositional pairing — the permanence of stone against the seasonal brilliance of momiji leaves. Yoshida renders the encounter with the layered pigment and restrained palette of a printmaker who had spent decades refining his craft, the lantern's carved surface and the leaves' translucent color brought into quiet dialogue.
![[Garden of] Taj Mahal, No. 1 (Taji Maharu no niwa, dai ichi) by Hiroshi Yoshida](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/230993a7-d4f0-c979-c267-127d48e1ef1c/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
Taji Maharu no niwa, dai ichi
1931
Color woodblock print; oban
January 1938
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
1938
Color woodblock print; oban
10/70, 1966
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Lanterns and Maples was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1963.
Lanterns and Maples was published by Yoshida Studio (1963).
Lanterns and Maples depicts gardens, trees, and autumn foliage.
