Yoshida Village

Date:: 1926
Medium:: Woodblock print
Format:: Oban
Publisher:: Yoshida Studio
Source:: Honolulu Museum 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

Yoshida Village — likely the village of Yoshida at the foot of Mount Fuji in Yamanashi Prefecture, namesake of the artist's adoptive family — appears in this 1926 print as a quiet settlement at the edge of a great presence. The village of Yoshida-guchi was one of the traditional starting points for Fuji ascents, and the town carried deep associations with pilgrimage and seasonal ritual. Yoshida depicted his namesake village with evident affection, framing its rooftops, trees, and pathways against the mountain's lower slopes in a composition that balances the human scale of domestic life with the immensity of the volcanic landscape beyond.