Turugizan - Morning (Morning on Tsurugisan) from Twelve Scenes in the Japanese Alps

 

Hiroshi Yoshida

  1876 - 1950 (biography)

1926 (printed later) 

color woodcut 

14 5/8 x 9 7/8" image 

stamp signature; signed Yoshida with artist's seal Hiroshi 

not stated 

block titled, lower left 

Yoshida 27; Riccar 19; Toledo 231 This woodcut is illustrated in color as plate 27 of “The Complete Woodblock Prints of Yoshida Hiroshi”, Abe Publishing Co., Ltd., 1987. 

ivory wove Japanese mulberry 

published posthumously 

Yoshida family (Watanabe for first edition). 

CAAL211 

SOLD

Yoshida notes in his 1939 book that, "6 blocks and 36 impressions" were used, with the special feature being, "Bokashi or gradations".

"Turugizan..." is the second image from a series of 12 woodcuts titled 'Twelve Scenes in the Japan Alps.' Mount Tsurugi is the second highest mountain on the island of Shikoku, and also the second highest mountain west of Mount Haku, which is on the border of Ishikawa and Gifu prefectures in central Japan. A tent is visible in the foreground with 2 campers to the left.

This impression is an early posthumous printing and does not have a ji-zuri. These impressions were printed after Hiroshi's death by his family in order to fulfill orders from galleries around the world. A signature block was cut and used and is often mistaken for a pencil signature. There is no loss in printing quality.