Rust and yellow forest mirrored in a still marsh

A grey volcanic cone rises behind a wall of autumn forest at Suiren marsh in the Hakkōda mountains. The trees fill the middle of the sheet in strong yellow, orange and rust, with one pale birch standing out against the darker mass and black conifers cutting into it at the right. Below, the still marsh water lies in olive and brown and carries the colour of the trees back in a broken reflection. The sky is a plain pale wash. The autumn colour is far more saturated than Yoshida usually allows.

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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