Rainbow in the eastern sky

This second impression of "Rainbow in the Eastern Sky" is either a variant state or an alternate edition of Hodaka Yoshida's rainbow composition, common in his practice given that he often pulled small editions and revisited subjects with revised block sequences or color choices. Variants in his work typically differ in the order of overprinted blocks, the substitution of one accent color for another, or the addition or omission of a textural plate, while the principal cherry-wood key blocks remain the same. The result reads as a deliberate study of how a fixed compositional armature — the rainbow arc, the dark horizon, the planar sky — responds to changes in palette and registration. Such serial variation aligned Hodaka with mid-century printmakers internationally, who treated the matrix as a site for formal experiment rather than a fixed reproduction of a single image. Examined against the first impression, this sheet rewards attention to the specific color blocks Hodaka chose to swap or re-cut.