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Night (drops) by Hodaka Yoshida — Japanese Woodblock print, 1954

Night (drops)

by Hodaka Yoshida

Contemporary MokuhangaShin-hangaSōsaku-hanga
Night Scenes
Date:
1954
Medium:
Woodblock print
Image courtesy of
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Description

An abstract composition on a deep mottled indigo ground, covered with pale cream and grey elongated drop shapes—thin stems ending in round or teardrop heads—scattered vertically and diagonally across the sheet alongside small squares and circles in cream, grey, and pale blue. The dark speckled background reads as a night sky, with the pale forms suggesting falling or drifting droplets against it. Signed and dated in pencil below the image, with the title inscribed at lower left; woodblock print, Hodaka Yoshida, 1954.

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Featured in Collections

Curated cross-cuts that include this print.

Shin-Hanga: Japan's Twentieth-Century Print RevivalSōsaku-Hanga: The Creative-Print Movement

Frequently Asked Questions

Night (drops) was created by Hodaka Yoshida (吉田穂高) in 1954.

Night (drops) depicts night scenes.