Yoshida, H.: Sarusawa Pond
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Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950)

A view through hanging willow branches onto Sarusawa pond and the pagoda of Kôfukuji temple in Nara.

Title: Sarusawa ike - Sarusawa Pond

From a series of views from the Kansai area.

Signature: Yoshida (handsigned in ink bottom right), and pencil signature Hiroshi Yoshida in bottom margin

Seal: Hiroshi

Date: Shôwa 8 (1933)

Size: Vertical Ôban, 37,5 cm x 24,5 cm (image)

Early impression with jzuri seal. Excellent impression in very good colours. An unobtrusive small thinner area in upper left corner, in bottom right margin below the pencil signature a smaller expertly restored missing area, some minimal traces of creasing, very narrow matstain lines at bottom and right. The two usual drying holes.

Ogura Tadao, The Complete Woodblock Prints of Yoshida Hiroshi, Abe Publishing, Tokyo 1991 (2.A.), p. 136, No. 187. Cf also MFA Boston, No. 50.2957; Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA), No. 2013.29.422

€ 2.500,-