A carved stone arch spanning a narrow grey street

A tall stone memorial arch spans a narrow street at Xingzi, carved with panels and inscription tablets and topped by a small crouching lion. Yoshida looks straight down the street through the arch, with weathered white and grey buildings pressing in on both sides and roofs receding beyond. Figures stand and walk on the pale flagstones — a woman in a deep rose tunic at the centre, others in grey and blue, a group resting at the left. The palette is chalky grey and stone with the rose figure as the focus.

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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