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.
Sankeien — the historic garden in Yokohama developed by silk merchant Hara Tomitaro in the early twentieth century, which contains transplanted historical buildings from around Japan including several designated National Treasures — provided Yoshida with a garden landscape of unusual depth and historical resonance in this 1935 print. The garden's transplanted architecture — a three-story pagoda from Kyoto's Tomyo-ji temple, a farmhouse from Gifu, tea ceremony buildings from various origins — sits within a designed landscape of ponds, hills, and seasonal plantings that offered Yoshida the combination of architectural and natural elements he found most compositionally generative. Sankeien was a site he could visit easily from Tokyo, and his treatment reflects the intimacy of repeated observation.
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.
Sankeien was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1935.
Sankeien uses Bokashi, Nishiki-e, and Moku-hanga, on color woodblock print.
Sankeien was published by Yoshida Studio (1935).
Sankeien depicts landscapes, architecture, and gardens.
Sankeien measures 27.5 × 40.8 cm (Oban format).
