Sail Boat

Sail Boat is a dry point etching from 1923, one of Yoshida's Western-medium works that preceded his full commitment to woodblock printmaking. Dry point — a form of intaglio printing made by scratching directly into a metal plate — produces a characteristic soft, burry line quality that suited maritime subjects well, the spontaneous mark of the stylus capturing the movement of sail and water. The 1923 date places this work in the years immediately before Yoshida's pivotal American tour, when he was still working across multiple printmaking media and had not yet fully committed to the woodblock form.