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.
Unzen — the volcanic mountain group on the Shimabara Peninsula of Nagasaki Prefecture, famous for its hot springs and its tragic role in the seventeenth-century persecution of Japanese Christians — provides the setting for this 1927 print. The Unzendake peaks, including Fugen-dake and the younger Heisei Shinzan formed by the 1990s eruptions, rise from a landscape of sulfurous hot springs and cloud forest that gives the mountain a dramatic, otherworldly character. Yoshida captures the distinctive volcanic topography of the summit area, with its combination of exposed rock, steaming fumaroles, and the dense vegetation of the surrounding slopes, rendering a landscape that has always carried the dual associations of natural beauty and volcanic danger.
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.
Unzendake was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1927.
Unzendake uses Bokashi, Nishiki-e, and Moku-hanga, on color woodblock print.
Unzendake was published by Yoshida Studio (1927).
Unzendake depicts landscapes, seascapes, and mountains.
Unzendake measures 41.8 × 27.3 cm (Oban format).
