Japanese Garden is a serene composition of curated nature -- pruned trees, mossy stones, and raked gravel -- that embodies the contemplative beauty Toshi Yoshida found in traditional garden design. Prices range from $300-$1,000 for studio editions and $700-$1,800 for jizuri self-printed impressions. Garden subjects are among the most broadly appealing in the Yoshida family catalogue and find ready buyers across all experience levels.
Japanese Garden is one of Yoshida's most meditative subjects — the traditional garden's combination of stone, water, sand, moss, and carefully shaped plantings offering a visual world designed for sustained contemplation. Japanese garden design embodies philosophical principles of restraint, suggestion, and the beauty of incompleteness, and Yoshida's printmaking sensibility was particularly well-suited to capturing these qualities. Whether depicting a dry stone garden, a stroll garden, or an intimate courtyard, his treatment conveys the particular quality of attention that Japanese gardens are designed to elicit.
![[Garden of] Taj Mahal, No. 1 (Taji Maharu no niwa, dai ichi) by Hiroshi Yoshida](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/230993a7-d4f0-c979-c267-127d48e1ef1c/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
Taji Maharu no niwa, dai ichi
1931
Color woodblock print; oban
January 1938
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
1938
Color woodblock print; oban
10/70, 1966
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Japanese Garden was created by Toshi Yoshida (吉田遠志).
Japanese Garden uses Nishiki-e, Moku-hanga, and Kento, on woodblock print.
Japanese Garden was published by Yoshida Studio.
Japanese Garden depicts gardens.
