Salmon-Crested Cockatoo (ôbatan ômu), from the series At the Zoological Garden (Dobutsuen), Taishô period, dated 1926

From Yoshida's 1926 series At the Zoological Garden (Dobutsuen), this kacho-e depicts a salmon-crested cockatoo (Cacatua moluccensis), its pale coral crest fanned above white plumage. Yoshida studied living specimens at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo to produce this series, bringing the observational precision of his Western painting training to the woodblock medium. The print likely renders the bird's feather texture through fine gradation and carefully registered key-block lines, with bokashi shading modeling the dimensional form of the crest. The warm salmon tones would have required at least one dedicated pigment block. As part of a broader zoological series, the work reflects shin-hanga's expansion beyond landscape into natural history subjects, maintaining Yoshida's characteristic attention to light falling across organic surfaces.