Hiroshi Yoshida - Rapids (1928)

Hiroshi Yoshida is one of my very favorites, and this is one of his most ambitious prints. Wish I had time to write more.

He's one of the two most famous Shin Hanga (New Print) draftsman-artists, the other being Hasui Kawase. The Shin Hanga movement was an early 20th century movement that revived the ukiyo-e tradition (complete with the separation of labor between designer, printer, carver, and publisher), and took place alongside the Sosaku-Hanga (Creative Print) movement which valued having a single artist in control of the entire process.

The Yoshida family is still around (Toshi Yoshida was posted here previously ), and still reprints some of the old images by hiring professional printers or presumably even recarving the designs with carvers.

As part of a more modern world Hiroshi Yoshida was able to travel across the world. The result is a broad variety of prints. For example, check out this one of the Alps, or this day - night pair of the Taj Mahal (from the same block). Switching tracks, Sailing Boats Day and Night are another pair printed from the same blocks.

Finally, the OP is one of my favorites, but this one of some clouds in the mountains is one of the most interesting to me. I've seen a version in person, I've seen multiple versions of it with the cloud slightly different in each online, and I still do not understand how exactly the cloud was made. Rice paste? Lifting post process? IDK.

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