Designer: Toshi Yoshida | Publisher: Yoshida | Date: 1940

Paper size: 28cm by 20.5cm | Enlargement | Currency: $ / £ / €

Price: $ 260.00£ 205.00€ 239.00

Description: Toshi Yoshida was a prolific artist who left behind a vast catalogue of images when he passed away in 1995. His family has continued to have his designs re-printed posthumously, so the signature you see in the corner is not a hand-drawn signature by the artist, but was instead printed by the printer. The prints here at Mokuhankan are recent re-printings by our partner Numabe Shinkichi, using the original blocks (You can click his name above for a little more information about him.)

Up until his father passed away in 1950, Toshi Yoshida mainly followed in his father’s footsteps by creating landscapes around Japan in the shin-hanga style. These are the prints he is most famous for, but he later experimented with many different subjects and styles. We hope you will enjoy the interesting selection of his works available here.

The Okaramon gate shown in this print is inside Nikko's Toshogu shrine, where the first shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu is enshrined. This is one place that really has not changed much despite the many passing years. Even today you can visit Toshogu in Nikko and see the same gate, looking just as elaborately ornamented as it was when this print was made, which again is the same as when it was first constructed in the early 1600s.