From Yoshida's later career (1935–1950), these prints show his technical mastery at full maturity. Later-decade prints slightly trail peak-period 1920s works at auction, but jizuri impressions of desirable subjects still command strong prices. Standard jizuri Japanese landscapes follow the dealer benchmark of approximately $2,149; Sacred Bridge, Nikko (1937) sold for $800 at Schmidt's Antiques for a pencil-signed example.
Yoshikawa — likely a river town or village name referencing a place along one of Japan's many rivers (kawa meaning "river") — appears in this 1935 print as a landscape defined by the relationship between flowing water and settled human community. The composition may depict a town or village on the banks of a named river, its buildings reflected in the current, the natural and built environments coexisting in the kind of organic integration that characterized traditional Japanese riverside communities. Yoshida was drawn throughout his career to the places where rivers defined the character of landscapes and communities, and his treatment of this subject reflects the accumulated skill of decades spent rendering water in all its conditions and settings.
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.
Yoshikawa was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1935.
Yoshikawa uses Bokashi, Nishiki-e, and Moku-hanga, on color woodblock print.
Yoshikawa was published by Yoshida Studio (1935).
Yoshikawa depicts landscapes, rivers & lakes, and village scenes.
Yoshikawa measures 39.6 × 26.4 cm (Oban format).
