Hiroshi Yoshida, 1876-1950

Evening in Nara
(Nara no yoru)

signed in sumi ink, Yoshida, with artist's red seal Hiroshi, with artist's jizuri (self-printed) seal in upper left margin, the date and title below, Showa hachinen saku (made in Showa 8 [1933]), Nara no yoru, and in penciled Roman script on the bottom margin, Evening in Nara, Hiroshi Yoshida

oban tate-e 15 3/4 by 10 7/8 in., 40.1 by 27.6 cm

References:
Ogura, Yoshida Hiroshi zenhangashu (The Complete Woodblock Prints of Hiroshi Yoshida), Abe Shuppan, Tokyo, 1987, p. 135, no. 185
Amy Reigle Stephens, ed., The new wave: Twentieth-century prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection, Hotei Publishing, Leiden, 1993, p. 121, no. 109

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