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.
Sekishozan — or Shizhongshan in Mandarin, a mountain or peak name associated with locations in China's Yunnan Province, near Dali on the shore of Erhai Lake — appears in this undated print as a Chinese landscape encountered during Yoshida's travels through southwestern China. The region's distinctive limestone karst formations or lakeside mountains, framed by the particular quality of Yunnan's high-plateau light, gave Yoshida material that differed fundamentally from Japanese mountain landscapes in its geological character and atmospheric conditions. His print translates this geographically specific landscape through his developed woodblock vocabulary while preserving what was visually foreign and unfamiliar about the Chinese setting.
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.
Sekishozan - Shizhongshan was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博).
Sekishozan - Shizhongshan uses Bokashi, Nishiki-e, and Moku-hanga, on woodblock print.
Sekishozan - Shizhongshan was published by Yoshida Studio.
Sekishozan - Shizhongshan depicts landscapes and mountains.
