Waterfall demonstrates Toshi Yoshida's command of one of the most challenging subjects in woodblock printing -- the depiction of moving water through layered translucent color. Studio editions typically sell for $300-$900, while jizuri self-printed impressions command $700-$1,600. Waterfall compositions have a distinguished lineage in Japanese art stretching back to Hokusai, and Toshi's modern interpretation holds its own within this venerable tradition.
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.
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Color woodblock print
1927
Color woodblock print; oban
late 19th century
Color woodblock print
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Waterfall was created by Toshi Yoshida (吉田遠志).
Waterfall uses Nishiki-e, Moku-hanga, and Kento, on woodblock print.
Waterfall was published by Yoshida Studio.
Waterfall depicts waterfalls and rivers & lakes.
