Willow and Stone Bridge

Date:: 1926
Medium:: Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Format:: Oban
Dimensions:: 41.1 × 28.4 cm
Publisher:: Yoshida Studio
Source:: Minneapolis Institute of Art

Typical Price

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.

Jizuri (artist-supervised) seal: $1,500–$4,000
Studio edition (no jizuri): $800–$2,000
Posthumous/family workshop reprint: $300–$800

Description

Willow and Stone Bridge from 1926 pairs two of the most resonant elements in the classical Japanese landscape vocabulary — the trailing willow and the arched stone bridge — in a composition that simultaneously invokes the tradition and refreshes it through Yoshida's modern sensibility. The willow's reflected tendrils and the bridge's arch find their echo in the still water below, creating a doubled image that intensifies the print's meditative quality. The stone bridge's permanence against the willow's seasonal change sets up a subtle dialogue between endurance and transience.