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.
Three Little Islands depicts a trio of small rocky outcroppings in the Seto Inland Sea, their pine-topped silhouettes rising from still water in the compositional arrangement that has characterized Japanese landscape art since the Heian period. Yoshida's 1930 print brings his characteristic atmospheric sensitivity to this quintessential subject — the quality of the sea's light, the gradation of sky from zenith to horizon, the way pine branches frame and reach toward water. The small islands of the Inland Sea were inexhaustible subjects for Yoshida, each with its own scale and character within the sea's complex geography.
$5,000
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.
Three Little Islands was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1930.
Three Little Islands was published by Yoshida Studio (1930).
Three Little Islands depicts landscapes, seascapes, and trees.
Three Little Islands measures 27.2 × 40.2 cm (Oban format).
