A belt of yellow woodland below a blue mountain

The blue mass of the Hakkōda range runs across the upper sheet under a pale sky with flat white cloud. Below it a broad belt of autumn woodland is printed in yellow, cream, orange and rose, the crowns of individual trees drawn as soft rounded shapes. A pale green pond lies across the foreground with a low grey shore curving in from the right, and a few small pale forms float on the water. The colour sits in gentle blocks rather than detail — the whole thing reads almost as pattern.

Hiroshi Yoshida (1876–1950) came to woodblock printing from Western-style oil and watercolour painting, and the meeting of the two defines his work. He travelled widely before turning to prints — the Alps, the Rockies, India, Egypt and China all enter his subjects — and in 1925 set up his own studio, supervising the carving and printing himself instead of working through a publisher. That control let him print one set of blocks in several colour states, so the same view could be given morning, evening or mist. His prints are held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago.

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.