Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 108698

White Wall

Artist / 作者
Yoshida Toshi吉田遠志
Date / 年代
1964
Medium / 技法
浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Showa / artelino
Digital record / 画像記録
1456 × 1000 px
Source collection / 所蔵元
Artelino
Published by / 公開者
朝倉レン
Rights / 権利
All rights reserved / commercial reuse prohibited
Attribution / 表記
Artelino

Catalog note / 解説

Offered for sale is a wonderful, pencil signed (and thus lifetime impression), woodblock by Toshi Yoshida (1911-1995), titled White Wall. In the left margin, embossed in Japanese is the date 1963, along with an embossed jikoku seal, indicating that the blocks were carved by Toshi himself. It depicts a garden at the Moss Temple and is from the "white-line" garden print series, in which Toshi used a white outline rather than the traditional black outline. According to Eugene M. Skibbe in his seminal book Yoshida Toshi: Nature, Art and Peace, in this series of prints Toshi incorporated ideas from his earlier abstract oil painting and prints into otherwise traditional material. Toshi Yoshida is…

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