Hiroshi YOSHIDA -- "Kameido Bridge" (#9)

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Artist YOSHIDA, Hiroshi
(1876-1950)
Title "Kameido Bridge" ("Kameido")
Date 1927; "impressed" signature lower margin (posthumous edition, ca1950-54).
Series "Twelve Scenes of Tokyo"
("Tokyo Juni Dai")
Publisher Yoshida Studio
Seal, Carver/Printer Blocks cut by Maeda Yujiro.
Image Size 9 3/8 x 14 3/8
Impression Very Fine. Skillfully executed "bokashi" shading; life-like reflection; crisply detailed lines.
Condition Very Good++.
Strong colors. Clean margins. (Minor wrinkling/mostly margin edges; scattered spotting/mostly backside; light wear.)
Pencil notation verso edge.
Reference/Illus "The Complete Woodblocks of Hiroshi Yoshida" #62; Blair's 1930 "Toldedo Exhibition" pl. #272.
Comments Yoshida's 1926 masterpiece. Very rarely seen. (Pencil notation verso indicates collected 1954 in Japan.)
Item # EG-289
Price $1,600 (Reserverd/GC)