Yoshida's North American subjects — Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Niagara Falls, Canadian Rockies — carry a 20–30% premium over comparable Japanese landscapes, with particularly strong demand from American institutional and private buyers. These prints represent a unique Japanese artistic perspective on Western natural monuments, and their rarity relative to Yoshida's Japan-focused output drives collector interest.
Mount Rainier (4,392 m) — the volcanic giant dominating the Seattle skyline — was among the subjects Yoshida captured during his extended 1923–25 North American tour, a journey that produced some of the first Western landscape subjects rendered in the [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) woodblock idiom. The dormant stratovolcano's ice-capped mass rises above forested foothills and river valleys, rendered with the objective grandeur of a painter trained in Western tradition but printing through Japanese craft. This 1925 work stands as a landmark of cross-cultural landscape art.
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.
Mount Rainier was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1925.
Mount Rainier was published by Yoshida Studio (1925).
Mount Rainier depicts landscapes, snow scenes, and mountains.
Mount Rainier measures 36 × 51 cm (Oban format).
