Hiroshi Yoshida (Japanese, 1876-1950)

Signed: Hiroshi Yoshida, (in pencil, lower, right)

" Himeji Castle - Morning ", 1926

(titled, lower, left)

Color woodblock print

14 9/16" x 9 11/16" image size

15 7/8" x 10 9/16" sheet size

jizuri seal, (upper, left)

This print is one of 8 purchased circa 1946 by a US soldier while stationed in Japan. Kept in a file since then, all together, unframed.

This print comes with acid-free archival matting and backing for a 22” x 16” frame.

Hiroshi Yoshida was a 20th-century Japanese painter and woodblock printmaker. Along with Hasui Kawase, he is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the shin-hanga style, and is noted especially for his landscape prints.