Notes (this edition) These notes were written by the original owner/seller/auctioner of the item and may be inaccurate.: | From the Honolulu Museum of Art.
Object Title: Glittering Sea Series Title: The Inland Sea Series Date: 1926 Artist: Yoshida Hiroshi Active: 1876 - 1950 Printer: Yoshida Hiroshi Medium: Color woodblock print Technique: Nishiki-e (Woodblock print with color blocks)
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This particular print is from little-known three-print 1994 Inland Sea Collection series. Edition size was a rather large 380 sheets. The edition number was written in the margin of the print.
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Yoshida, Hiroshi (1876 - 1950) Glittering Sea Series: The Inland Sea Medium: Woodblock Print Date: 1926 Size (H x W): 15.75 x 10.75 (inches) Seals: Jizuri Signature: Hiroshi Yoshida (in pencil) Condition: Very good color, impression and state. |
Title Sailing Boats on the Sea
Signature "Hiroshi Yoshida" stamped on lower margin.
Seal Artist's seal.
Dated 1926.
Technique Woodblock print
Ukiyo-e Size Oban tate-e
Width Item 11.0 inches = 28.0 cm
Height Item 15.7 inches = 40.0 cm
Width Image 9.6 inches = 24.5 cm
Height Image 14.6 inches = 37.0 cm
Impression Excellent - very good ... Posthumous printing but not recent.
Colors Very good.
Quality Very good ... Lightly toned. Slight foxing. A light stain on the upper area on the sky. Two drying holes on left margin, slight soils on the margins.
Literature Zito, Paul; & Masako Hayano, "Yoshida Hiroshi Zen Moku-hanga Shu: The Complete Woodblock Prints of Yoshida Hiroshi", Tokyo, Abe Corporation, 1987, ISBN 4-87242-121-3 C3071, - pg. 56, pl.38
Description From the series "Setonaikai" ("The Inland Sea"), "Hikaru Umi" ("Glittering Sea"). Two boats sail on the calm and glittering sea. Small silhouettes of other boats are seen in distance. |
Title Glittering Sea
More Posthumous.
Description From the series, "Setonaikai" (The Inland Sea), "Hikaru Umi" (Glittering Sea).
Signature Hiroshi Yoshida (Stamped).
Seal Hiroshi.
Dated 1926.
Technique Woodblock print
Ukiyo-e Size Oban tate-e
Note "Gashu Kinen" "Ato-zuri" on the left margin.
Width Item 10.6 inches = 27.0 cm
Height Item 15.7 inches = 40.0 cm
Impression Excellent - very good ... (posthumous printing in 1985).
Colors Excellent.
Quality Excellent - very good. |
Hiroshi Yoshida – Glittering Sea (jizuri seal)
Artist Yoshida, Hiroshi
Date 1910s-1930s
Edition Lifetime, Limited
Movement Shin-hanga
Publisher Yoshida Family Studio
Size Oban (10"x15")
Glittering Sea (Hikaru umi), from the series Inland Sea (Seto naikai shu). Two sailboats cross the shining waters of the Seto Inland Sea, the unseen sun sparkling in a brilliant swath of reflected light. This work is very highly sought after and this design was known to have been displayed in the Kensington Palace office of the late Princess Diana.
The Woodblock Print This oban-sized woodblock is in very fine to excellent condition with the jizuri seal meaning it was printed by Hiroshi Yoshida himself. Beautiful color and detail, intact margins and deckle, clean verso. A small bit of tape stain on the top edge of the verso. Pencil signed. |
Year Published 1926
Size Oban
Signed Hiroshi Yoshida
Editions Jizuri
Subjects inland, sailboats, sea
Thanks to https://hiroshiyoshida.art/product/glittering-sea/ for this database entry. |
Thanks to: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2008660724/
Title: Hikaru umi Title Translation: The sparkling sea. Creator(s): Yoshida, Hiroshi, 1876-1950, artist Date Created/Published: 1926. Medium: 1 print : woodcut, color ; 41.1 x 27.6 cm. Summary: Print shows two sailboats under full sail.
Notes: Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Seto Naikai shu (Setonai kaishu) : A series of ocean views at Seto. Format: full color wodblock print. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-jpd-02224 (digital file from original print) Call Number: FP 2 - JPD, no. 1887 (B size) [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print |
Title Glittering Sea
More Posthumous.
Description From the series, "Setonaikai" (The Inland Sea), "Hikaru Umi" (Glittering Sea).
Note "Gashu Kinen" "Ato-zuri" on the left margin.
Signature Hiroshi Yoshida (Stamped).
Seal Hiroshi.
Dated 1926.
Technique Woodblock print
Ukiyo-e Size Oban tate-e
Width Item 10.6 inches = 27.0 cm
Height Item 15.7 inches = 40.0 cm
Impression Excellent - very good ... (posthumous printing in 1985).
Colors Excellent.
Quality Excellent - very good. |
Thanks to Jacque for this database entry: https://jacquesc.home.xs4all.nl/pages/GlitteringSea.htm
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 18th of October 1976. |