A walled hill town rises from calm water among moored junks

A rocky hill rises from pale turquoise water at the centre, crowned with Chinese buildings — tiled pavilion roofs along its top and a small red-orange pavilion set on its green flank above a sheer grey cliff. Junks with dark furled sails lie moored at the left beneath a walled shore with a gateway, and a lone sail crosses the water at the right. Behind them a range of soft mauve-pink hills folds back under a cream sky. The whole scene is held again in the water, the hill and boats reflected in broken bands of blue and green.

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.