Nakabeshima

Date:: 1930
Medium:: Woodblock print
Format:: Oban
Publisher:: Yoshida Studio

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Typical Price

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.

Jizuri (artist-supervised) seal: $1,500–$4,000
Studio edition (no jizuri): $700–$2,000
Posthumous/family workshop reprint: $300–$800

Description

Nakabeshima is a small island or coastal settlement in the Seto Inland Sea region, and Yoshida's 1930 print renders the site with the intimate attention he lavished on the lesser-known places he encountered during his travels along Japan's coasts. The Seto Inland Sea offered an inexhaustible supply of such subjects — small islands, sheltered coves, fishing villages — each with its own character of light and water. Yoshida's jizuri technique, printing each copy himself, ensured that the subtle tonal relationships he envisioned were preserved in each impression.