Little Girl

This 1927 portrait depicts a young girl, likely encountered during Yoshida's travels, rendered with the sympathetic observation he brought to figural subjects throughout his career. Yoshida rarely portrayed children with sentimentality; instead he treated them with the same formal attention he gave to landscapes — as presences in light, their posture and expression observed with care. The print reveals his oil-painting background in its attention to the human face, while its execution in woodblock achieves a delicacy of color and line unavailable to the painter's brush.