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.
Sunrise Rite from 1928 depicts a religious ceremony conducted at dawn — possibly a Shinto rite performed at the break of day, when the first light of the sun carries particular sacred significance. Yoshida's treatment of ritual subjects was consistent with his broader approach: the ceremony is rendered as a visual phenomenon as much as a spiritual one, the quality of early morning light as important as the human activity taking place within it. The print captures that liminal moment when the darkness of night gives way to the spreading warmth of sunrise.
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.
Sunrise Rite was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1928.
Sunrise Rite was published by Yoshida Studio (1928).
Sunrise Rite depicts landscapes, figures, and religious.
Sunrise Rite measures 27.5 × 41.5 cm (Oban format).
