Sumida River Mist, from the series Twelve Scenes of Tokyo (Tokyo jûnidai), Taishô period, dated 1926

From the 1926 series Twelve Scenes of Tokyo (Tokyo jūnidai), this print depicts the Sumida River under morning or evening mist, a meisho-e subject with deep roots in Edo-period print culture. Yoshida's composition likely frames the river surface with partially obscured boats, bridge pilings, or distant embankments dissolving into atmospheric haze — a setting that allowed him to deploy the graduated bokashi his technical mastery excelled at. The mist sequences across multiple color blocks would have required precise registration to maintain the illusion of atmosphere dissolving solid forms. By 1926 the Sumida was already heavily industrialized; Yoshida's treatment likely filters that industrial reality through a softening atmospheric condition, recovering the classical river imagery while acknowledging the transformed cityscape of Taishō-era Tokyo.