Stone Bridge is a quietly elegant landscape composition featuring the graceful arc of a traditional Japanese bridge over a garden stream. Toshi Yoshida's bridge subjects are consistently appealing to collectors. Studio editions typically sell for $300-$900, and jizuri impressions with the rectangular self-printed cartouche command $600-$1,600. The timeless simplicity of the subject ensures it remains one of the more accessible entry points into Toshi's Japanese landscape work.
Stone Bridge depicts an arched masonry crossing — perhaps in a Japanese castle moat, temple garden, or historic city — with the formal attentiveness Yoshida brought to architectural subjects that embodied the enduring craftsmanship of traditional Japanese construction. Stone bridges in Japan are relatively rare compared to the wooden crossings of the feudal period, making each one a distinctive monument to the specific building tradition that created it. Yoshida's treatment emphasizes the bridge's material character — the cut stone, the mortar joints, the weathered surface — as a record of skilled work persisting through time.
Woodblock print
![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)
1947
Color woodblock print; oban
1926
Color woodblock print; oban
1930
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Stone Bridge was created by Toshi Yoshida (吉田遠志).
Stone Bridge uses Nishiki-e, Moku-hanga, and Kento, on woodblock print.
Stone Bridge was published by Yoshida Studio.
Stone Bridge depicts bridges.
