Kagurazaka street

This is a separate state of the Kagurazaka composition, printed from the same key block in a different color register. Yoshida is widely identified with this practice—most famously in his Sailing Boats series, where multiple impressions of one key block were printed in colors evoking morning, afternoon, evening, mist, and night. Here the technique extends to an urban subject, allowing the viewer to see how shifting light reshapes a familiar street. The variant likely emphasizes a different time of day or weather: dusk lanterns, daylight clarity, or an overcast diffusion that flattens architectural detail. Such pairings demand precise registration through kentō notches and careful baren pressure to keep linework consistent across impressions while color blocks are recut or re-inked. Within shin-hanga production, Yoshida's tonal pairings of identical compositions remain distinctive markers of his hand, separating his oeuvre from contemporaries like Hasui, who rarely repeated key blocks this way.