Japanese Woodblock Prints

Japanese Woodblock Prints

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The Property of a Lady

Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950) | Taj Mahal in Moonlight, No. 4 (Tsukiyo no Taji Maharu, daiyon) | Showa period, 20th century

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The Property of a Lady

Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950)

Taj Mahal in Moonlight, No. 4 (Tsukiyo no Taji Maharu, daiyon)

Showa period, 20th century


woodblock print, from the Taj Mahal series, signed in ink in Japanese Yoshida, and in pencil in Roman script Hiroshi Yoshida, sealed Hiroshi, with artist’s jizuri [self-printed] seal, titled to the lower left margin Moonlight of Taj Mahal no. 4, dated Showa rokunen saku (made in 1931)


Horizontal oban: 28.2 x 40.3 cm., 11⅛ x 15⅞ in.

In 1930, Yoshida travelled around India and Southeast Asia. He made numerous sketches of the Taj Mahal, from which he created a total of six prints in various states of light and weather. 


For a similar impression of the same print in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number 50.3245, go to:

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/254951

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