Cherry blossom beside the red pillars of a temple gate

The great vermilion gate of Ninna-ji at Omuro in Kyoto fills the left of the sheet, its heavy grey tiled roofs stacked above a row of red pillars, with a dark pine leaning across the top. Cherry trees in pale pink stand at the right against a soft grey sky. Visitors climb the stone steps and cross the pale forecourt in small groups; two women in bright pink and red kimono stand together at the lower left, and a figure in a yellow hat carries a load at the right.

Hiroshi Yoshida (1876–1950) came to woodblock printing from Western-style oil and watercolour painting, and the meeting of the two defines his work. He travelled widely before turning to prints — the Alps, the Rockies, India, Egypt and China all enter his subjects — and in 1925 set up his own studio, supervising the carving and printing himself instead of working through a publisher. That control let him print one set of blocks in several colour states, so the same view could be given morning, evening or mist. His prints are held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago.

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