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Shin Hanga prints

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	Design:	Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950)
	Series title:	The Inland Sea Series
	Title:	Sailing Boats - Morning
	Size:	50.8 x 35.9 cm (double ōban)
	Posthumous printing from the original woodblocks
	Photography:	Theo Janssen

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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:

Series title, publishing date and print title in left margin:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
瀬	se	shallows
戸	to	door
内	nai	inside
海	kai	sea	Inland
集	shū	gather	Sea Series
大	tai	big
正	shō	correct
拾	jū	ten	Made in the
五	go	five	15th year of the
年	nen	year	Taishō era
作	saku	make	(i.e., 1926)
帆	han	sail
船	sen	ship	Sailing Boats -
朝	asa	morning	Morning

Black block-printed title (Sailing Boats - Morning) and artist’s name (Hiroshi Yoshida) in bottom margin.

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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.

• Narazaki, Muneshige, ed. (1990). Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in Western collections. The Robert O. Muller Collection. Tokyo: Kodansha International.

• Newland, Amy Reigle, and Uhlenbeck, Chris, Eds. (1990). Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga. New York: Mallard Press.

• Newland, Amy Reigle, ed. (2004). Printed to Perfection. Twentieth-century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection. Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, in association with Sackler Gallery/Smithsonian Institution.

• Stephens, Amy Reigle (1993). The New Wave: Twentieth-century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection. London: Bamboo Publishing.

• 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: Castle Fine Arts