Early Spring at Yoshida
by Ito Shinsui
- Date:
- 1938
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 24.6 × 37 cm
- Publisher:
by Ito Shinsui
Shinsui's extensive oeuvre spans bijin-ga, landscapes, and genre subjects. Auction averages over 12 months reflect healthy collector demand across all subject types.
The town of Yoshida—likely the Yoshida at the foot of Mount Fuji, one of the old Tokaido road stations—is shown in the pale tentative light of early spring 1938, when snow may still linger but the quality of the air announces the season's turning. Shinsui's composition uses [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) to build the soft atmospheric depth of a spring morning, the landscape still quiet before the seasonal warmth fully arrives. The print belongs to his series of named Japanese places produced in the late 1930s.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Early Spring at Yoshida was created by Ito Shinsui (伊東深水) in 1938.
Early Spring at Yoshida uses Bokashi, on woodblock print, ink and color on paper.
Early Spring at Yoshida was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1938).
Early Spring at Yoshida depicts spring.
Early Spring at Yoshida measures 24.6 × 37 cm (Oban format).
