Winter in Taguchi (Later printing by Toshi Yoshida)
- Date:
- 1927
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Yoshida Studio
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.
Winter in Taguchi captures the mountain village of Taguchi under the deep snowfall of a Japanese alpine winter, the familiar forms of rooftops and trees buried under accumulation. This impression was printed later by Toshi Yoshida, Hiroshi's son, who maintained and printed from his father's original blocks with comparable technical mastery. The 1927 design demonstrates Hiroshi's gift for snow scenes: the white of the paper used directly for snow, the compressed tonal range of a winter landscape rendered through careful selection of the colors that persist when the world turns monochrome.
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
Color woodblock print; oban
1932
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Winter in Taguchi (Later printing by Toshi Yoshida) was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1927.
Winter in Taguchi (Later printing by Toshi Yoshida) was published by Yoshida Studio (1927).
Winter in Taguchi (Later printing by Toshi Yoshida) depicts snow scenes and winter.
