🔥 Important Antique Old Asian JAPANESE Woodblock Print - Hiroshi YOSHIDA, 1925

Description: This a lovely and colorful Important Antique Old Asian JAPANESE Woodblock Print on Paper, dating to 1925 or 1938 (sources vary on the exact date of creation, and this print may have also been pulled posthumously in the early 1950's, after the artist's death by his surviving studio) by revered Japanese shin-hanga printmaker and painter, Hiroshi Yoshida (1876 - 1950.) This artwork is rendered with a Western influenced style and features several figures drinking tea and socializing in a small outdoor courtyard, which is a common Japanese domestic scene. They are surrounded by tall evergreen trees, and gorgeous pink azalea flowers. This particular teahouse is located in Mishima in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Titled: "Tea House in the Alazea Garden" in the lower left corner and reading: "Hiroshi Yoshida" in the lower right corner. Approximately 14 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches (including frame.) Actual artwork is approximately 10 5/8 x 15 3/4 inches. Very good condition for age, with some light spots of soiling and faint creases to the edges of the paper (please see photos.) Acquired from an old collection in Pasadena, California. Priced to Sell. This particular print is in the permanent collections of the University of California, Merced and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among others. If you like what you see, I encourage you to make an Offer. Please check out my other listings for more wonderful and unique artworks! About the Artist: Hiroshi Yoshida Born: 1876 - Kyushu, Kureme, JapanDied: 1950Known for: Landscape and portrait painting and shin-hanga printmakingName variants: Yoshida Hiroshi Hiroshi Yoshida (1876 - 1950) was active/lived in Massachusetts / Japan. Hiroshi Yoshida is known for Landscape and portrait painting and shin-hanga printmaking. "Hiroshi Yoshida was a leading figure in the 'shin hanga' (or new print) movement. He worked primarily as a painter until his late forties when he became fascinated with woodblock printing. After working with the Watanabe print shop for several years, Yoshida decided to fund his own workshop. Unlike ukiyo-e artists, he was intimately involved in all parts of the printmaking process. He designed the key blocks, chose the colors for the prints, and supervised the printers. In some cases, he even helped to carve the printing blocks. This was unusual, considering the traditional division of labor between designer, carver, and printer at that time.""The majority of Yoshida's prints are richly detailed landscapes, featuring such diverse subjects as the Sphinx, the Taj Mahal, and Mount Rainier. Yoshida travelled frequently, and made sketching and painting trips all around the world. He was an avid mountain climber, and is noted for his depiction of alpine scenes. He also was remarkably skilled at depicting water, with its intricate reflections and complex flow patterns. Yoshida's prints were very popular with Western collectors, and he was one of the only shin hanga artists to sign and title his prints in English." Biography from the Archives of askART A Japanese landscape painter and printmaker, especially known for woodcuts, Hiroshi Yoshida was born in Kyusha or Kurema, Japan, and was much influenced by his adoptive father who was a painting teacher in the public schools. At age 19, he began art study in Kyoto with Tamura Skoryu, who did western style painting, which was becoming increasingly accepted in Japan. For three years Yoshida studied in Tokyo with Soyama Shotaro.In 1899, he received his first recognition in America with an exhibition of his work at the Detroit Museum, later renamed the Detroit Institute of Art. During that period he traveled on the East Coast of the USA and in Europe. By the 1920s, in addition to oil and watercolor landscape painting, he was heavily involved in woodblock printmaking.Referred to as Romantic Realism in western style, his artwork was heavily influenced by his travels in America. "Two Grand Canyon scenes indicate Yoshida's presence in Arizona about 1925". (Dawdy, 486)His work is exhibited at the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, and numerous other museums including the Museum of Northern Arizona and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.Sources:Doris Dawdy, Artists of the American West V. III Yoshida, HiroshiHiroshi Yoshida (吉田博, September 19, 1876 – April 5, 1950) was a Japanese artist known for his landscape prints and paintings. He was one of the leading figures of the shin-hanga (“new print”) movement, which aimed to revive traditional Japanese printmaking techniques while incorporating modern influences.Yoshida was born in Kurume, Japan, in 1876. He began his artistic training at a young age, studying under his adoptive father, a painter and calligrapher. He later attended the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, where he studied Western-style painting. Around the age of twenty, he left Kurume to study with Soritsu Tamura in Kyoto, subsequently moving to Tokyo and the tutelage of Shotaro Koyama. Yoshida studied Western-style painting, winning many exhibition prizes and making several trips to the United States, Europe and North Africa selling his watercolors and oil paintings. He played a leading role in the organization of the Meiji Fine Arts Society into the Pacific Painting Association in 1902. While highly successful as an oil painter and watercolor artist, Yoshida turned to woodblock printmaking upon learning of the Western world’s infatuation with ukiyo-e.In the early 1900s, Yoshida began to focus on printmaking, creating his first woodblock print in 1904. He quickly gained recognition for his prints, which were characterized by their delicate lines and subtle use of color. Yoshida’s prints were also notable for their modern subject matter, which often featured scenes of urban life and travel. Following the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, Hiroshi Yoshida embarked on a tour of the United States and Europe, painting and selling his work. When he returned to Japan in 1925, he started his own workshop, specializing in landscapes inspired both by his native country and his travels abroad. Yoshida often worked through the entire process himself: designing the print, carving his own blocks, and printing his work.Yoshida’s prints gained international recognition in the 1920s and 1930s, when he exhibited his works in the United States and Europe. He also traveled extensively throughout Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, creating sketches and watercolors of his travels. Yoshida’s experiences abroad influenced his artistic style, as he incorporated elements of Western art into his works.Yoshida often collaborated with his wife, Fujio, and his sons, Toshi and Hodaka, on his prints. The family worked together on all aspects of the printmaking process, from the initial design to the carving of the woodblocks and the printing of the final image. Their collaborative works are characterized by their technical mastery and harmonious compositions. Although he designed his last print in 1946, Yoshida continued to paint with oils and watercolors up until his death in 1950.Yoshida’s works continue to be celebrated for their technical mastery and artistic vision. His prints and paintings are held in collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. Yoshida’s influence can also be seen in the work of contemporary printmakers who continue to draw inspiration from his innovative techniques and artistic vision.All of his lifetime prints are signed “Hiroshi Yoshida” in pencil and marked with a jizuri (self-printed) seal outside of the margin. Within the image, most prints are signed “Yoshida” with brush and ink beside a red “Hiroshi” seal. Yoshida, Hiroshi (1876 - 1950)Hiroshi Yoshida was born in 1876. He began his artistic training with his adoptive father in Kurume, Fukuoka prefecture. Around the age of twenty, he left Kurume to study with Soritsu Tamura in Kyoto, subsequently moving to Tokyo and the tutelage of Shotaro Koyama. Yoshida studied Western-style painting, winning many exhibition prizes and making several trips to the United States, Europe and North Africa selling his watercolors and oil paintings. In 1902, he played a leading role in the organization of the Meiji Fine Arts Society into the Pacific Painting Association. His work was featured in the exhibitions of the state-sponsored Bunten and Teiten. While highly successful as an oil painter and watercolor artist, Hiroshi Yoshida turned to woodblock printmaking upon learning of the Western world’s infatuation with ukiyo-e.Following the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, Hiroshi Yoshida embarked on a tour of the United States and Europe, painting and selling his work. When he returned to Japan in 1925, he started his own workshop, specializing in landscapes inspired both by his native country and his travels abroad. Yoshida oversaw each step of the woodblock printing process—from design to publication. His career was temporarily interrupted by his sojourn as a war correspondent in Manchuria during the Pacific War. Although he designed his last woodblock print in 1946, Yoshida continued to paint with oils and watercolors up until his death in 1950.Hiroshi Yoshida was widely traveled and knowledgeable of Western aesthetics, yet maintained an allegiance to traditional Japanese techniques and traditions. Attracted by the calmer moments of nature, his woodblock prints breathe coolness, invite meditation, and set a soft, peaceful mood. All of his lifetime prints are signed “Hiroshi Yoshida” in pencil and marked with a jizuri (self-printed) seal outside of the margin. Within the image, most prints are signed “Yoshida” with brush and ink beside a red “Hiroshi” seal. Hiroshi Yoshida Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田 博, Yoshida Hiroshi, September 19, 1876 – April 5, 1950) 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. Yoshida made numerous trips around the world, with the aim of getting to know different artistic expressions and making works of different landscapes. He traveled widely and was particularly known for his images of non-Japanese subjects done in traditional Japanese woodblock style, including the Taj Mahal, the Swiss Alps, the Grand Canyon, and other National Parks in the United States.He was known as a mountain painter (山岳画家) in Japan and spent about half of the year on sketching travels. He was particularly fond of mountain landscapes and painted many of them, founding the Nihon Sangakugaka Kyōkai (Japan Mountain Painting Society, 日本山岳画家協会) in his later years. As a mountaineer, he climbed the mountains of the Japanese Alps every summer and created his large paintings and woodblock prints after returning home.BiographyHiroshi Yoshida (born Hiroshi Ueda) was born in the city of Kurume, Fukuoka, in Kyushu, on September 19, 1876. At the age of 15, he was adopted by the Yoshida family after his talent for painting was discovered by Kasaburo Yoshida, a junior high school art teacher, and studied with the Kyoto yoga-ka (Western-style painters) Tamura Sōryū and Miyake Kokki. He moved to Tokyo at the age of 17 and entered the Fudōsha (不同舎), a painting school sponsored by the yōga-ka Koyama Shōtarō, and became a member of the Meiji Bijutsukai (Meiji Art Society, 明治美術会), the first Western-style art organization in Japan.In 1899, Yoshida had his first American exhibition at the Detroit Museum of Art (now the Detroit Institute of Art). In 1900 he had an exhibition with Hachiro Nakagawa at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He then traveled to Washington, D.C., Providence, France, Great Britain, Germany, and Italy. He exhibited his work at the Paris Exposition of 1900, for which he received a commendation, and after coming to the United States in 1903, he exhibited his work at the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904, for which he received a bronze medal. Around this time, Yoshida and his fellow painters founded the Taiheiyōgakai (Pacific Art Society, 太平洋画会) the successor to the Meiji Bijutsukai.In 1920, at the age of 44, Yoshida presented his first woodcut at the Watanabe Print Workshop, organized by Shōzaburō Watanabe (1885–1962), publisher and advocate of the shin-hanga movement. His first work was a print depicting the Meiji Shrine. In 1921, he produced seven prints, including a series of sailing ships. However, Yoshida's collaboration with Watanabe was short partly due to Watanabe's shop burning down because of the Great Kanto earthquake on September 1, 1923.In 1923, Yoshida made a third travel to the U.S. to sell the few works left after the earthquake. His prints were well received in the U.S. and he held exhibitions all over the country from his base in Boston. His travel to the United States made him aware of the high reputation of Japanese woodblock prints and he set out to create new woodblock prints that would combine the traditional Japanese technique of ukiyo-e with the realistic expression of yōga (Western-style painting).In 1925, he hired a group of professional carvers and printers and established his own studio. Prints were made under his close supervision. Yoshida combined the ukiyo-e collaborative system with the sōsaku-hanga principle of "artist's prints", and formed a third school, separating himself from the shin-hanga and sōsaku-hanga movement.In 1925, he started the series Europe and the series The United States and published works like The Grand Canyon. In 1926, he published 41 prints, the year in which he produced the most prints in his life. In that year, he started the series Seto Inland Sea of which Glittering Sea was published in the same year. He also published the series Twelve Scenes in the Japan Alps and three prints from the series Ten Views of Mount Fuji in the same year. In 1928, he published the series Southern Japan Alps and the remaining seven works from the series Ten Views of Mount Fuji.From November 1930 to February 1931, Yoshida and his eldest son, Tōshi, went on a sketching trip to India and Southeast Asia. It was his fourth travel abroad. He became so absorbed in sketching that after a full day of painting at one destination, he would take an overnight train to the next destination and sleep in the sleeping car. He chose a season when he could see the sunrise at Kanchenjunga under clear skies, and he checked the phases of the moon so that he could sketch the Taj Mahal on a full moon night. As a result of this sketching travel, he produced 32 prints in the India and Southeast Asia series.At the age of 73, Yoshida took his last sketching trip to Izu and Nagaoka and painted his last works The Sea of Western Izu and The Mountains of Izu. He became sick on the trip and returned to Tokyo where he died on April 5, 1950, at his home. From 1930 until his death in 1950 he produced about 250 woodblock prints. His tomb is in the grounds of the Ryuun-in, in Koishikawa, Tokyo. Artistic style Throughout his life, Yoshida was a leading figure in the Japanese art world of his time in the fields of woodblock prints, watercolors and oil paintings.During a visit to the United States in 1923, he became aware of the high esteem in which Japanese woodblock prints were held and set out to create a new style of woodblock prints that combined the traditional Japanese technique of ukiyo-e with the realistic expression of yoga (Western-style painting). He borrowed the brush strokes of oil painting and the color expression of watercolor from yōga techniques and integrated them with traditional ukiyo-e techniques.The style of ukiyo-e, one of the distinctive features of Yoshida's artistic work, emerged in Japan around the 15th century, which consists of the application of paint on a block of wood. The usual theme represented in this painting were Kabuki theatre, natural landscapes, socialites, or everyday scenes. For many years the ukiyo-e style was the truest representation of what art meant in Japan.His prints are characterized by an unprecedented layering of colors through multiple prints, with an average of 30 prints and often close to 100 prints. As a result, his works are rich in color and faithfully depict the atmosphere of landscapes and even the three-dimensionality of architecture. For example, Yōmeimon in 1937 was printed 96 times and Kameido in 1927 was printed 88 times to complete the work.He used the same block to print different color combinations to express the changes of time and weather on the same piece. This production method is called betsuzuri (別摺り, separate printing). A representative example of this method are the six works he made in 1926 depicting sailing boats. They are part of the Seto Inland Sea series, and each depicts a morning, forenoon, afternoon, evening, night and mist scene of the same sailing boats. In his six prints of the Taj Mahal published in 1932, the fifth and sixth are in the betsuzuri method, each depicting a morning and a night scene.Yoshida left the carving and printing of the woodblocks to the craftsmen as in traditional Japanese woodblock printmaking, but he worked closely with them to instruct and supervise them strictly and stamped the finished works with the 自摺 (self-printing, jizuri) seal. He believed that in order to instruct the craftsmen, he had to acquire more skill than the craftsmen, so he carved the woodblocks himself for some of his works. The Yoshida family legacy The artistic lineage of the Yoshida family of eight artists: Kasaburo Yoshida (1861–1894), whose wife Rui Yoshida was an artist; their daughter Fujio Yoshida (1887–1987); Hiroshi Yoshida (1876–1950), their adopted son, who married Fujio; Tōshi Yoshida (1911–1995), Hiroshi's son, whose wife Kiso Yoshida (1919–2005) was an artist; Hodaka Yoshida (1926–1995), another of Hiroshi's sons, whose wife Chizuko Yoshida (1924–2017) and daughter Ayomi Yoshida (b. 1958) are artists. This group, four men and four women spanning four generations, provides a perspective on Japanese history and art development in the turbulent 20th century. Although they inherited the same tradition, the Yoshida family artists have worked in different styles with different sensibilities. Toshi Yoshida and the Yoshida family have used Hiroshi's original woodblocks to create later versions, including posthumous, of his prints. Prints created under Hiroshi Yoshida's management with special care have a jizuri (自摺, self-printed) seal kanji stamp, which indicates that he played an active role in the printing process of the respective print. Hiroshi Yoshida's signatures vary depending on the agents and time of creation. Prints originally sold on the Japanese market do not carry a pencil signature or a title in English.Yoshida was fond of mountains and wanted to name his first son Hakusan (白山), after Mount Hakusan, but decided against it when his wife objected. Fifteen years later, he took the plunge and named his second son Hodaka (穂高), after Mount Hotaka. It is said that he loved Mt. Hotaka the most of all the mountains, and through his artistic activities he created many works depicting Mt. Hotaka. Works in MuseumsHis works are held in several museums worldwide, including the British Museum, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Harvard Art Museums, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Clark Art Institute, the Portland Art Museum, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Seattle Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, and the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum. PublicationsJapanese Woodblock Printing, comprehensive guide to the craft of woodblock printing written by Hiroshi Yoshida was published by The Sanseido Company, Ltd. in Tokyo and Osaka in 1939.

Price: 2750 USD

Location: Orange, California

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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted

Artist: Hiroshi Yoshida

Unit of Sale: Single Piece

Signed By: Hiroshi Yoshida

Image Orientation: Landscape

Signed: Yes

Size: Medium

Period: Art Deco (1920-1940)

Title: "Tea House in the Azalea Garden"

Material: Paper

Original/Licensed Reprint: Original

Region of Origin: California, USA

Framing: Matted & Framed

Subject: Asia, Botanical, Calligraphy, Family, Famous Paintings/Painters, Figures, Flowers, Forest, Gardens, Ladies, Landscape, Men, Plants, Roses, Seasons, Silhouettes, Tokyo, Tree, Women, Working Life, Japan

Type: Print

Year of Production: 1925

Item Height: 14 1/2 in

Theme: Architecture, Art, Cities & Towns, Community Life, Continents & Countries, Cultures & Ethnicities, Domestic & Family Life, Events & Festivals, Exhibitions, Floral, Food & Drink, History, Hobbies & Leisure, Nature, People, Portrait, Working Life

Style: Figurative Art, Illustration Art, Impressionism, Japanese Woodprinting, Modernism, Portraiture, Post-Impressionism

Features: 1st Edition, Limited Edition

Production Technique: Woodblock Printing

Country/Region of Manufacture: Japan

Handmade: Yes

Item Width: 19 1/2 in

Time Period Produced: 1925-1949