Toshi Yoshida, "Plum Tree and Blue Magpie" (RS)

A beautiful, simple print showing an aged plum tree and blue magpies. This lifetime edition contains an embossed seal near Toshi's signature indicating he oversaw printing but was too frail to sign his prints.

Date: 1951
Size: Oban (approx. 9" x 14")
Published by Yoshida Studio, lifetime edition (embossed seal)
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.