A steep stone bridge above a canal crowded with boats

A high stone arch bridge crosses the canal at Suzhou, its span rising steeply with small figures walking over the top. A big willow leans over the right bank in soft grey-green. Below, the canal is crowded with cargo boats — sampans loaded with russet-brown bales, boatmen poling and rowing, and a dense group of figures in blue, white and pink working along the quay. Whitewashed buildings line both banks under a pale blue sky. The bridge's pale stone holds the centre.

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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