Toshi Yoshida, "Iidabashi" (PS)

This pre-World War II view of Iidabashi shows the traditional wood homes that once dominated an area that is today completely modernized. Here, the vantage point is from a bridge crossing the Kanda River in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. A rare, pencil-signed and lifetime edition of an early Toshi Yoshida design. 

Date: 1939
Size: Chuban (approx. 10" x 7")
Lifetime edition, pencil-signed
Condition: Excellent color and condition 
Publisher: The Artist
Frame Shown: 16" x 20" 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.