Window and Stone Garden

Catalog note / 解説

Offered for sale is a wonderful, pencil signed (and thus lifetime impression), woodblock by Toshi Yoshida (1911-1995), titled Window and Stone Garden and dated 1963 in Japanese in the left margin. According to the Yoshida Hanga catalogue, the blocks were self-cut by Toshi himself. It depicts a garden at the Daitokuji 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 th…