Lushan
- Date:
- 1939
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 26.8 × 40.3 cm
- Publisher:
- Yoshida Studio
From Yoshida's later career (1935–1950), these prints show his technical mastery at full maturity. Later-decade prints slightly trail peak-period 1920s works at auction, but jizuri impressions of desirable subjects still command strong prices. Standard jizuri Japanese landscapes follow the dealer benchmark of approximately $2,149; Sacred Bridge, Nikko (1937) sold for $800 at Schmidt's Antiques for a pencil-signed example.
Lushan, the misty mountain range in Jiangxi Province that Chinese poets and painters have venerated for over two thousand years, provided Yoshida with subject matter steeped in art-historical resonance during his 1939 travels through China. The mountains rise through cloud and mist in the manner of classical Chinese landscape painting, and Yoshida's approach here echoes that tradition while filtering it through his own woodblock vocabulary. Where classical Chinese ink painters dissolved mountains in atmospheric wash, Yoshida achieved comparable effects through careful gradation of pigment on multiple woodblocks. The result is a rare dialogue between two great landscape traditions.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Lushan was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1939.
Lushan was published by Yoshida Studio (1939).
Lushan depicts landscapes and mountains.
Lushan measures 26.8 × 40.3 cm (Oban format).
