Water Lilies in the Botanical Garden
- Date:
- 1926
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 40.4 × 27.3 cm
- Publisher:
- Yoshida Studio
- Source:
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
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.
Water Lilies in the Botanical Garden captures one of the celebrated ornamental ponds that Yoshida encountered in the botanical gardens he visited during his 1926 travels — the broad lily pads and blossoms floating on still water in the manner that had fascinated European Impressionists since Monet. Yoshida's woodblock interpretation of this subject differs fundamentally from oil painting's approach: each tonal area is printed separately, and the lily pads' reflective surfaces and the water's depth must be built from overlapping color passes. The result demonstrates the woodblock medium's surprising capacity for the soft, aqueous effects associated with Impressionism.
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Taji Maharu no niwa, dai ichi
1931
Color woodblock print; oban
January 1938
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
1938
Color woodblock print; oban
10/70, 1966
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Water Lilies in the Botanical Garden was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1926.
Water Lilies in the Botanical Garden was published by Yoshida Studio (1926).
Water Lilies in the Botanical Garden depicts gardens.
Water Lilies in the Botanical Garden measures 40.4 × 27.3 cm (Oban format).
