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Shin Hanga prints

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	Design:	Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950)
	Series title:	The Inland Sea Series
	Title:	Glittering sea
	Size:	37.1 x 24.6 cm
	Posthumous printing from the original woodblocks
	Photography:	Jacques Commandeur

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Enlargement

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Artist’s signature (Yoshida) and red artist’s seal (Hiroshi) in bottom right corner of the print:

Printing type in top left margin:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
画	ga	picture
集	shū	collect	Art book
記	ki	history
念	nen	idea	commemorative edition,
後	ato	later
摺	suri	printing	later printing

Original publication date in middle left margin:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
大	tai	big
正	shō	just
拾	jū	ten	Made in the
五	go	five	15th year of
年	nen	year	the Taishō era
作	saku	make	(i.e., 1926)

Followed by series and print title:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
瀬	se	shallows
戸	to	door
内	nai	inside
海	kai	sea	The Inland
集	shū	gather	Sea Series
光	hika	shine
る	ru
海	umi	sea	Glittering sea

Block signed print title (Glittering sea) and artist’s name (Hiroshi Yoshida) in bottom margin.

This reprint published by the Yoshida Family Studio. The note ‘181076’ in black pencil on the verso suggests this reprint was published on the 18^th of October 1976.

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References

• Brown, Kendall H., Putney, Carolyn M., Shūko, Koyama, and Binnie, Paul (2013). Fresh Impressions: Early Modern Japanese Prints. Toledo: Toledo Museum of Art.

• 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.

• The Toledo Museum of Art, Ed. (1930). A special exhibition of modern Japanese prints. Ohio: Toledo.

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Provenance: The Ukiyo-e Gallery of Thomas Crossland and Andreas Grund