Toshi Yoshida, "Plum Tree and Blue Magpie"

A beautiful, simple composition showing an aged plum tree and blue magpies set against a yellow sky.

Date: 1951
Size: Oban (approx. 9" x 14")
Later edition
Publisher: Yoshida Studio
Condition: Fine
Frame Shown: 16" x 24", Classic Wood, Clear Walnut

Toshi Yoshida (1911-1995) is one of the twentieth century's most important woodblock print artists. Toshi is part of a long and famous line of past and present artists whose influence and popularity persist to this day. His father, Hiroshi Yoshida, was a master painter and woodblock print artists at the height of the shin-hanga print movement.