Waterfall

Waterfall is one of Yoshida's most classically Japanese landscape subjects, the taki having held a central place in Japanese aesthetics from the earliest scrolls and screens through the entire woodblock tradition. Waterfalls were simultaneously the most dynamic and the most static of natural subjects — their constant movement paradoxically creating a visual effect of suspended time — and the challenge of rendering moving water in the print medium was one that Japanese artists had been meeting for centuries. Yoshida's treatment brings his own formal sensibility to this traditional challenge.