A woman rests beneath paper lanterns at a small temple gate

A tiled gate stands square to the viewer, its heavy grey roof set with rows of curved tiles. Two tall paper lanterns hang in the opening beside a round white sign ruled in red, and salmon-pink plaster walls run out to either side. Inside the gateway a woman sits on a low bench in a blue-grey jacket over a red skirt, a dark red bundle in her lap; behind her a small stone lantern stands among blue-grey rockwork. Broad pale paving slabs fill the foreground and the sky above the roof is flat, clear blue.

Hiroshi Yoshida (1876–1950) came to woodblock printing from Western-style oil painting, and brought a painter's eye for light to shin-hanga. He worked first with the publisher Watanabe Shōzaburō and from 1925 ran his own studio, supervising the carving and printing himself and often issuing a single design in several colourways to catch a different hour of the day. His travels through the Japan Alps, India, Egypt, Europe and North America gave the movement its widest geographic range. His prints are held by the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Printed as a museum-grade giclée on Hahnemühle fine art paper using 12-ink archival pigment printing. Available handframed in FSC-certified wood with optional float glass, or unframed. Ships worldwide with free delivery to 30+ countries.