Shin Hanga prints
| Design: | Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950) | |||||
| Title: | Rapids | |||||
| Size: | 54.5 x 82.8 cm (quadruple ōban) | |||||
| Posthumous printing from the original woodblocks | ||||||
| Photography: | Jacques Commandeur |
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Artist’s signature (Yoshida) and red artist’s seal (Hiroshi) in bottom left corner of this spectacularly large print:
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Original publishing date and print title in left margin:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 昭 | shō | clear | |
| 和 | wa | peace | Made in the |
| 三 | san | three | third year of the |
| 年 | nen | year | Shōwa era |
| 作 | saku | make | (i.e., 1928) |
| 渓 | kei | valley | |
| 流 | ryū | current | Rapids |
Black block-printed artist’s name (Hiroshi Yoshida) in bottom margin.
References
- Brown, Kendall H., Putney, Carolyn M., Shūko, Koyama, and Binnie, Paul (2013). Fresh Impressions: Early Modern Japanese Prints. Toledo: Toledo Museum of Art.
- Newland, Amy Reigle, and Uhlenbeck, Chris, Eds. (1990). Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga. New York: Mallard Press.
- The Complete Woodblock Prints of Yoshida Hiroshi (1987). Tokyo: ABE Corporation.
- The Toledo Museum of Art, Ed. (1930). A special exhibition of modern Japanese prints. Ohio: Toledo.
Provenance: Castle Fine Arts