Shin Hanga prints
| Design: | Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950) | |||||
| Title: | Calm wind | |||||
| Size: | 30.4 x 22.7 cm (ōban) | |||||
| Original woodblock print | ||||||
| Photography: | Jacques Commandeur |
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Artist’s signature (Yoshida) and red artist’s seal (Hiroshi) in bottom left corner of the print:
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Self-published seal, publishing date, and print title in left margin:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 自 | ji | self | |
| 摺 | zuri | Self-published | |
| 昭 | shō | clear | |
| 和 | wa | peace | |
| 拾 | jū | ten | Made in the |
| 二 | ni | two | 12th year of |
| 年 | nen | year | the Shōwa era |
| 作 | saku | make | (i.e., 1937) |
| 風 | kaze | wind | Calm |
| 静 | shizu | quiet | wind |
Pencil signed print title (Calm wind) and artist’s name (Hiroshi Yoshida) in bottom margin.
References
- Martin, Katherine (2006). Highlights of Japanese printmaking. Part 2: Shin Hanga. New York: Scholten Japanese Art.
- The Complete Woodblock Prints of Yoshida Hiroshi (1987). Tokyo: ABE Corporation.
Provenance: Castle Fine Arts