Catalog ID: A6720
Artist: Hiroshi Yoshida
Medium: Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Series Title: India Series
Edition: First
Date: 1932
Publisher: The Artist - Privately Published
Reference No.: Abe #173
Size: 15 -3/4 x 21 -1/4 " (dai-oban format)
Condition: Very fine
Notes:
Artist: Hiroshi Yoshida
Medium: Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Series Title: India Series
Edition: First
Date: 1932
Publisher: The Artist - Privately Published
Reference No.: Abe #173
Size: 15 -3/4 x 21 -1/4 " (dai-oban format)
Condition: Very fine
Notes:
A superb example: never framed or displayed. Signed in pencil, with the artist's brush signature and red chop. Jizuri seal in the upper left margin. Yoshida was known for his high artistic standards: the term jizuri ('self-printed') would appear only on those prints that Yoshida personally supervised and was satisfied with the final result.
The primary purpose of Yoshida's India trip was to visit and sketch the Taj Mahal, and he apparently timed his arrival to be on the night of a full moon. Yoshida was so enamored by the white marble mausoleum commissioned by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in the mid-seventeenth century that he produced six different versions of the building; each numbered in their titles."