One ink pine leaning over a harbour under empty sky

A tall narrow panel in ink and light colour on a cream ground. The upper two-fifths are empty paper. Below, a low line of blue-grey hills crosses the sheet with two small sailing boats on the water beneath them. A large pine painted in wet black ink, its branches spreading almost horizontally, fills the lower half and leans out over a cluster of tiled roofs and a masted boat at the shore. A red seal is stamped at the lower left. The panel carries no title or date.

Hiroshi Yoshida (1876–1950) trained as a painter long before he became famous for woodblock prints. He studied Western-style oil and watercolour painting in Kyoto and Tokyo, exhibited in Detroit, Boston and Washington in the 1900s, and travelled through Europe, North America and Asia painting on the road. The prints he began issuing from his own studio in 1925 grew directly out of this painting practice, which is why they carry effects of light and weather that traditional woodblock rarely attempted. Work by him is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago.

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.