Yoshida: Winter in Taguchi
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Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950)

A wide, snow-covered valley with a small farmhouse, a long mountain range stretches behind.

Title: Taguchi no fuyu (Winter in Taguchi)

Signature: Yoshida

Seal: Hiroshi

Date: Shôwa 2 (1927)

Size: Horizontal Ôban, 24.7 x 37.3 cm (image size)

Excellent impression in very good colours. Very faint narrow mat line on top, one very weak crease. Two small drying holes in top margin, as usual. Posthumous but older impression from the original blocks. A seldom seen image by the artist.

Ogura Tadao, The Complete Woodblock Prints of Yoshida Hiroshi, Abe Publishing, Tokyo 1991 (2nd. ed.), p. 88, no. 91 (ill.); See also Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA), no. 87.85.7; Honolulu Museum of Art, Michener Coll., no. 13719

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