Hiroshi Yoshida – Sanjo Bridge

Original woodblock print. The first edition of this design was published in 1927. The current print is from a posthumous edition.

Image size (excluding margins): 34.1 * 24.1 cm (13.4 * 9.5 in).

The print is in excellent state. There is a printer smudge in the lower right corner of the image, and some in the right margin.

The pictures shown here are from the print itself.

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Hiroshi Yoshida (1876 – 1950) was one of the leading figures of Japanese printmaking in the 20th century. Together with Kawase Hasui he is the most famous artist of the Japanese Shin-hanga movement that revived Japanese woodblock printing to new heights. A prolific artist, Hiroshi Yoshida traveled the world and produced landscape prints of many different countries.

See an overview of Hiroshi Yoshida's woodblock prints