Linnoji Garden
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
"Linnoji Garden" is a shin-hanga / sosaku-hanga print by Toshi Yoshida, created during the Showa. This work demonstrates the artist's distinctive approach to wildlife and animals through the medium of Japanese woodblock printing.
Toshi Yoshida inherited one of the most celebrated names in modern printmaking — son of Hiroshi Yoshida — and built upon it a career spanning six decades, thousands of designs, and a distinctive body of wildlife and nature prints alongside landscapes.
This print represents Toshi Yoshida's contribution to the shin-hanga / sosaku-hanga tradition during the Showa. As with all works by this artist, it reflects both individual artistic vision and the broader cultural moment in which it was created. For collectors and admirers of Japanese printmaking, it offers a window into the sophisticated aesthetic world that produced some of the most beloved images in art history.
![[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.
Linnoji Garden was created by Toshi Yoshida (吉田遠志).
Linnoji Garden depicts gardens.