Niagara Falls

 

Hiroshi Yoshida

  1876 - 1950 (biography)

1925 /printed later 

color woodcut 

9 7/8 x 14 5/8" image 

stamp signature, lower right margin 

 

artist's seal in image, lower right; publisher's stamp in lower left 

Yoshida 12; Sanseido 4; Toledo 216 

ivory wove Japanese mulberry 

published posthumously 

Yoshida family 

CAAL182 

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"Niagara Falls" is the fourth print from the series of 6 woodcuts known as the United States series. Yoshida used 6 blocks and a total of 29 impressions to achieve this image. A notation states: "Muda-bori". The blocks for this image were cut by Watanabe. According to the Toledo catalogue the initial edition was 60 impressions. The United States series woodcuts are Yoshida's first prints done in a series, totalling six images. This impression is from an edition printed by the Yoshida family after Hiroshi died.