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.
Yarigatake — the "Spear Peak" — is one of the most distinctively shaped summits in the Japanese Alps, its needle-like crest rising steeply above the Azusa River valley in Nagano Prefecture. Yoshida's 1926 print captures the peak that is often called the Matterhorn of Japan, its pointed summit visible from great distances as a navigational landmark for mountaineers. The mountain's jagged profile presented a compositional challenge quite different from Fuji's smooth cone, and Yoshida's treatment demonstrates his ability to translate complex geological forms into the flat vocabulary of the woodblock medium.
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.
Yarigatake was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1926.
Yarigatake was published by Yoshida Studio (1926).
Yarigatake depicts landscapes, snow scenes, and mountains.
