Window and Stone Garden

Date:: 1963
Medium:: Woodblock print
Format:: Oban
Publisher:: Yoshida Studio

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Typical Price

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.

Jizuri (artist-supervised) seal: $1,500–$4,000
Studio edition (no jizuri): $700–$2,000
Posthumous/family workshop reprint: $300–$800

Description

Window and Stone Garden, from 1963, is a contemplative late-career work in which Yoshida frames a karesansui dry garden — rock and raked gravel — through the geometry of a window or architectural opening. The dry garden is a purely abstract landscape, its forms suggesting mountains and water without representing them literally, and Yoshida's decision to view it through a frame within a frame adds a further layer of mediated perception. The print's restraint, its reduction to essential elements, reflects the philosophical depth that characterizes his final works.