An ocean liner blazes with light across a black harbour

A great passenger liner lies across the middle of the sheet at night, its dark hull pierced by long rows of yellow portholes and its decks strung with lights; cones of pale light spill from the two masts and a lit waterfront skyline shows behind it at the right. Small launches and boats sit in the foreground on black-green water, one carrying a red lamp and a green, and every light on the ship falls into the harbour as a long smeared streak of yellow. The sky above is deep blue-purple.

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.