A fleet at anchor under a sliver of moon in a pale evening sky

A fleet of sailing boats lies at anchor in a calm harbour at dusk, their grey-brown sails hoisted and their masts and rigging drawn as a fine lattice against a pale yellow-green sky. A thin crescent moon hangs at the upper centre between the masts. In the foreground a low dark hull rides at the right with two figures aboard, one in blue; other boats crowd the left and a single sail closes the far right. The still blue-grey water carries every mast down as a wavering dark line.

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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