Lantern light runs in long streaks down a wet night street

A steep street climbs away into a deep blue night, its surface still wet from rain. Dark two-storey timber buildings crowd the left, latticed upper windows shuttered except for one that glows warm yellow, and paper lanterns hang lit along the frontages — a tall square one brushed with characters, a round lantern rimmed in red, smaller ones deeper in. A stall stands open on the right, its counter heaped with produce in orange, pink and cream under a signboard, with a few figures gathered at it. A tall dark pole rises through the centre of the composition. Across the whole foreground the lantern light falls into the wet road as long vertical streaks of cream and gold on blue-grey.

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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