Toshi Yoshida, "San Francisco" (RS)

One of Toshi Yoshida's most popular designs here at Tokaido Arts, this now scarce design shows San Francisco from atop Tank Hill at sunset. This lifetime edition contains an embossed seal near Toshi's signature indicating he oversaw printing but was too frail to sign his prints. 

Date: 1985
Format: Oban (approx. 9" x 14")
Published by Yoshida Studio, lifetime edition (embossed seal)
Condition: Fine
Frame Shown: 16" x 24" x 1/2", Modern Metal, 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.