Yoshida,H.: Sailing Boats Morning
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Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950)

A sailing boat on the calm Seto Inland Sea at sunrise.

Title: Hansen - asa (Sailing Boats  - Morning)

Series: Setonaikai-shû (Seto Inland Sea Collection)

Signature: Yoshida. Seal: Hiroshi

Date: Taishô 15 (1926)

Size: Vertical double Ôban, 50,8 x 36 cm (image)

Excellent impression and colours. Very good early posthumous impression, c. 1950s. Paper minimally age-toned, otherwise excellent condition.
The usual two small dry holes in upper margin.

From the much praised and sought-after large-sized series of six daytime and colour variations of this motif -  rare even in posthumous editions.

Ogura Tadao, The Complete Woodblock Prints of Yoshida Hiroshi, Abe Publishing, Tokyo 1991 (2nd ed.), pp. 56f and ill. no.40. For more on these outstanding prints see Laura W. Allen et al, A Japanese Legacy. Four Generations of Yoshida Family Artists, Minneapolis 2002, pp. 48f, and Amy Reigle Newland et al, Printed to Perfection, Washington/Amsterdam 2004, pp. 46-49.

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