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.
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.
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.
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).
