Toshi Yoshida, "Hyoroku"

Snow covers a countryside scene in this woodblock print by Toshi Yoshida The blocks for this woodblock print were carved by Yoshida himself as indicated with the jikoku seal in the top left margin. Pencil-signed by the artist, this woodblock print comes directly from the Yoshida family estate and has never been been displayed.

Date: 1955
Format: Oban (approx. 9" x 14")
Published by artist (pencil-signed)
Condition: Fine
Frame Shown: 16" x 24" x 1/2", Classic Wood, Ebony

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.