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Unknown children snow dog horse by Hiroshi Yoshida — Japanese Woodblock print

Unknown children snow dog horse

by Hiroshi Yoshida

Medium:
Woodblock print
Image courtesy of
Japanese Art Open Database

Description

This untitled print appears to depict children, a dog, and a horse in a snow scene — a subject outside Yoshida's typical landscape output but consistent with occasional figure and genre subjects in the shin-hanga period. Snow scenes required careful management of unpigmented washi to render white expanses, with the paper surface itself standing for snow. The inclusion of animals and children suggests a rural winter setting, possibly drawing on European pastoral conventions absorbed during Yoshida's travels. Bokashi gradation in the sky would establish atmospheric cold, while the figures provide scale and narrative interest in an otherwise spare composition.

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Unknown children snow dog horse was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博).

Unknown children snow dog horse depicts snow scenes.