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| Publisher (this edition): | Hiroshi Yoshida | Hiroshi Yoshida |
| Date of this item: | 1940 | 1940 |
| Notes (this edition) These notes were written by the original owner/seller/auctioner of the item and may be inaccurate.: | Guaranteed original Japanese woodblock print. Artist: Hiroshi Yoshida (Pencil signed) Subject: Sozhou Seal: Artist's Jizuri - Early original impression. Date: 1940 Condition: Fine color, impression, condition. Small faint discoloration in top left margin. Customary pin-sized drying hole in right top margin. Size: Oban (10.5" x 15.75"). |
Offered for sale is a wonderful, pencil signed Japanese woodblock print by Hiroshi Yoshida (1886-1960), titled Soshu, 1940. This print is illustrated at pl. 236 of The Complete Woodblock Prints of Yoshida Hiroshi, Ogura, Tadao et. al., Abe Publishing Co., Ltd., (Tokyo, 1987). It has a jizuir seal in the left margin, evidencing that Yoshida himself approved of the quality of the print. It also has both a brush signature in the image and a pencil signature in the lower right margin. According to the aforementioned Yoshida catalogue, this print was based on the sketches made during Yoshida's second trip to China as a war painter in 1939. This print is has very good color and condition, although there is a small wrinkle in the paper in the top margin, near the left corner, and residue from a prior mount on the top reverse corners. The image measures approximately 9 ¾ by 114 ¾ inches, plus margins. |