Kikuzaka Street is an engaging Tokyo neighborhood scene that captures everyday urban life with the observational warmth characteristic of Toshi Yoshida's cityscapes. Studio editions from the family workshop typically sell for $300-$800, while jizuri impressions reach $600-$1,500. The quiet domesticity of the subject contrasts with Toshi's more dramatic wildlife and travel prints, offering a gentler facet of his artistic range.
Kikuzaka Street is an urban street scene from Yoshida's Tokyo prints, depicting one of the city's neighborhood arteries with the observational attentiveness he inherited from the [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) tradition. Street scenes in twentieth-century Tokyo presented a very different visual world from his father's late Meiji subjects, the city having been rebuilt twice — after the 1923 earthquake and after the 1945 firebombing — and Yoshida's treatment captures a specific moment in the city's postwar reconstruction. The street's commercial character, passing figures, and architectural mix are rendered with his characteristic precision.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Kikuzaka Street was created by Toshi Yoshida (吉田遠志).
Kikuzaka Street uses Nishiki-e, Moku-hanga, and Kento, on woodblock print.
Kikuzaka Street was published by Yoshida Studio.
Kikuzaka Street depicts urban scenes.
