Toshi Yoshida, "Bamboo Garden, Hakone Museum" (PS)

The Hakone Museum in Kanagawa Prefecture inspired Toshi Yoshida to create this beautifully layered composition featuring the bamboo groves on the museum's grounds. The bright sky above the mountains of Hakone in the background contrasts beautifully with the richly detailed printing of the garden. 

Date: 1954
Format: Oban (approx. 9" x 14")
Pencil-signed
Publisher: The Artist
Condition: Tape remnants top margin, other excellent color and condition
Frame Shown: 16" x 24" x 1/2", 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.