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Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950)
Three women with babies on their backs strolling after a spring rain shower under the blossoming cherry trees of a buddhist temple garden with a big bell tower.
Title: Shôrô (Bell tower) - In a Temple Yard
Series: Sakura hachi-dai (Eight scenes of cherry blossom)
Signature: Yoshida (hand-signed in ink bottom left), pencil signature Hiroshi Yoshida in bottom right margin
Seal: Hiroshi
Date: Shôwa 10 (1935)
Size: Vertical Ôban, 37,5 cm x 24,2 cm (image size)
Early printing with jizuri seal. Excellent impression and very good colours, excellent condition.
Ogura Tadao, The Complete Woodblock Prints of Yoshida Hiroshi, Abe Publishing, Tokyo 1991 (2nd ed.), p. 142, No. 197. Cf. also Hololulu Museum of Art, Nr. 19958
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