Hotei #85
About This Series
Hotei #85 is the catalogue designation under which a Yoshida Hiroshi print circulates in cataloguing systems that follow the Hotei numbering, a reference to the standard catalogue raisonne of the artist published by Hotei Publishing in Amsterdam in 1987 under the editorship of Eugene Skibbe and Henry D. Smith II, which assigned sequential numbers to each known design across Yoshida's printmaking career. The Hotei numbering remains the primary reference system through which scholars and collectors organize the artist's woodblock output, and prints whose original Japanese titles are uncertain or whose attributions require disambiguation are often catalogued in Western collections by their Hotei number rather than by a translated title. The present entry refers to whichever design Hotei catalogue number 85 corresponds to within Yoshida's chronological output, a question of cataloguing reference rather than of subject interpretation, and the underlying print belongs to the body of independently produced jizuri designs that the artist issued from his own workshop after his break with Watanabe Shozaburo in the early 1920s and the establishment of his independent production system from 1925. The jizuri stamp that Yoshida applied to his prints, attesting his personal supervision of every stage of block cutting and printing, distinguished his output from the publisher-led shin-hanga of Watanabe's program and gave his designs an authorial register closer to that of the sosaku-hanga artists than to the standard shin-hanga collaboration. The relatively limited representation of this individual cataloguing entry in the database reflects the way the Hotei numbering organizes Yoshida's output as a chronological sequence of individual designs rather than as a coherent named series, and impressions catalogued under specific Hotei numbers are most useful when read against the underlying scholarship that the Hotei catalogue raisonne provides. The standard reference for Yoshida's printmaking output remains the Hotei catalogue, and impressions are held across the major Western collections of twentieth-century Japanese print, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Toledo Museum of Art, and the Honolulu Museum of Art.
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Hotei #85 is the catalogue designation under which a Yoshida Hiroshi print circulates in cataloguing systems that follow the Hotei numbering, a reference to the standard catalogue raisonne of the artist published by Hotei Publishing in Amsterdam in 1987 under the editorship of Eugene Skibbe and Henry D. Smith II, which assigned sequential numbers to each known design across Yoshida's printmaking career. The Hotei numbering remains the primary reference system through which scholars and collectors organize the artist's woodblock output, and prints whose original Japanese titles are uncertain or whose attributions require disambiguation are often catalogued in Western collections by their Hotei number rather than by a translated title. The present entry refers to whichever design Hotei catalogue number 85 corresponds to within Yoshida's chronological output, a question of cataloguing reference rather than of subject interpretation, and the underlying print belongs to the body of independently produced jizuri designs that the artist issued from his own workshop after his break with Watanabe Shozaburo in the early 1920s and the establishment of his independent production system from 1925. The jizuri stamp that Yoshida applied to his prints, attesting his personal supervision of every stage of block cutting and printing, distinguished his output from the publisher-led shin-hanga of Watanabe's program and gave his designs an authorial register closer to that of the sosaku-hanga artists than to the standard shin-hanga collaboration. The relatively limited representation of this individual cataloguing entry in the database reflects the way the Hotei numbering organizes Yoshida's output as a chronological sequence of individual designs rather than as a coherent named series, and impressions catalogued under specific Hotei numbers are most useful when read against the underlying scholarship that the Hotei catalogue raisonne provides. The standard reference for Yoshida's printmaking output remains the Hotei catalogue, and impressions are held across the major Western collections of twentieth-century Japanese print, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Toledo Museum of Art, and the Honolulu Museum of Art.
The Hotei #85 series contains 1 prints, created by Hiroshi Yoshida.
The Hotei #85 series was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博).
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