Singapore
- Date:
- 1931
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 39.4 × 27.4 cm
- Publisher:
- Yoshida Studio
- Source:
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
Description
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.
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Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
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).