Evening in East Africa
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Publisher:
- Yoshida Studio
- Source:
- ukiyo-e.org
Description
Evening settles over the East African savanna in this atmospheric print from Yoshida's African wildlife series, the long horizontal light of the late afternoon catching the grassland and the silhouettes of trees on the horizon. Yoshida traveled to Africa multiple times, studying its wildlife and landscape with the same attentiveness his father Hiroshi Yoshida brought to mountain and coastal subjects. The print's palette shifts through amber, violet, and dusty rose — the characteristic colors of the African twilight — rendered in the carefully controlled gradations of woodblock printing.
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Evening Shower at Teradomari (Teradomari no yau), from the series "Souvenirs of Travel, Second Series (Tabi miyage dai nishu)"
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![Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)" by Kawase Hasui](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d0960668-1e73-339a-b182-fb995a54bff0/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)"
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Color woodblock print; oban
Evening Moon at Nakanoshima, Sapporo (Sapporo Nakanoshima no yuzuki), from the series "Collection of Views of Japan, Eastern Japan Edition (Nihon fukei shu higashi Nihon hen)"
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Color woodblock print; oban
Matsushima in Moonlight (Tsuki no Matsushima)
1919
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Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Evening in East Africa was created by Toshi Yoshida (吉田遠志).
Evening in East Africa uses Nishiki-e, Moku-hanga, and Kento, on woodblock print.
Evening in East Africa was published by Yoshida Studio.
Evening in East Africa depicts night scenes.