This 1920s print from the heart of Yoshida's jizuri period represents his mature shin-hanga technique. Standard jizuri prints of Japanese landscapes cluster around $2,149 (1stDibs dealer benchmark). The jizuri seal — indicating Yoshida personally supervised printing — is the single most important value driver, typically doubling the price over non-jizuri lifetime impressions.
The Sumida River in the afternoon light carries the boats and barges that made it the commercial artery of Edo-period and modern Tokyo, the water's surface alive with the reflections of bridges and bankside buildings. Yoshida's 1926 print depicts the river in its workaday aspect — not the cherry-blossom spectacle of spring but the quieter drama of afternoon light on moving water. The Sumida was a subject laden with historical and cultural resonance, and Yoshida brings his characteristic atmospheric sensitivity to a river that Hiroshige had made famous nearly a century before.
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.
Sumida River - Afternoon was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1926.
Sumida River - Afternoon was published by Yoshida Studio (1926).
Sumida River - Afternoon depicts landscapes and rivers & lakes, set at Sumida River.
