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.
Yoshida visited Singapore during his 1931 Southeast Asia tour, encountering a colonial port city at the height of its commercial prominence. His print renders the cityscape with the same compositional intelligence he brought to Japanese subjects — the harbor geometry, the interplay of tropical light and architectural form, the atmospheric qualities specific to an equatorial port. Singapore's mixture of colonial European buildings, Chinese shophouses, and Malay architecture presented Yoshida with a visual complexity quite different from his usual subjects, and his response demonstrates the adaptability of his observational method.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Singapore was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1931.
Singapore was published by Yoshida Studio (1931).
Singapore depicts urban scenes, seascapes, and travel scenes.
Singapore measures 39.4 × 27.4 cm (Oban format).
