Shokozan
- Date:
- 1939
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 26.9 × 40.7 cm
- Publisher:
- Yoshida Studio
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Description
Shokozan — a mountain name suggesting a "mountain of pine and fragrance," possibly a specific peak in Japan or China encountered during Yoshida's Asian travels — appears in this 1939 print as a landscape rendered in the mature, atmospheric style of his late career. By 1939 Yoshida had spent over four decades perfecting his translation of observed landscape into the woodblock medium, and his treatment of any mountain subject at this point reflects the accumulated authority of that experience: the sky gradations precisely calibrated, the relationship between near and distant elements precisely weighted, the atmospheric conditions rendered with a specificity that goes beyond formula into direct perceptual observation.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Shokozan was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1939.
Shokozan uses Bokashi, Nishiki-e, and Moku-hanga, on color woodblock print.
Shokozan was published by Yoshida Studio (1939).
Shokozan depicts landscapes, trees, and mountains.
Shokozan measures 26.9 × 40.7 cm (Oban format).