Small Town in Chūgoku District
- Date:
- 1933
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 27 × 39.9 cm
- Publisher:
- Yoshida Studio
- Source:
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
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.
The small towns of Japan's Chūgoku region — the western end of Honshū facing the Seto Inland Sea — possessed a quiet, unhurried character that Yoshida found compelling in his 1933 travels. This print depicts the modest scale and traditional architecture of such a settlement: tiled rooftops, narrow streets, the organic growth of a community built over generations without grand urban ambition. Yoshida's treatment of provincial towns was consistently sympathetic, finding in their ordinariness the same beauty he pursued in mountains and coastlines.
$1,800
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Small Town in Chūgoku District was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1933.
Small Town in Chūgoku District was published by Yoshida Studio (1933).
Small Town in Chūgoku District depicts urban scenes.
Small Town in Chūgoku District measures 27 × 39.9 cm (Oban format).
