Loaded camels halt on the open plain below distant mountains

Two heavily loaded camels fill the centre of the sheet, their tan and olive coats roped with big ochre bundles. A man in a white robe and white turban stands between them holding a stick; to the right another in a mauve jacket, white trousers and a yellow turban leans on a staff beside a companion in a red turban, and a small donkey carries a bundle almost as large as itself. Behind them a line of further camels recedes to the left across pale sand scattered with stones, throwing long shadows. The plain runs back in bands of ochre and dusty pink to a low blue-mauve range on the horizon, under a sky graded from pale green-blue to cream.

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.

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