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Kyōto no yoru (Night in Kyoto)


Yoshida Hiroshi, Kyōto no yoru (Night in Kyoto), 1933, color woodblock print on paper, Gift of Mr. Robert K. McClelland, © Yoshida Hiroshi, 80.105.5

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Title

Kyōto no yoru (Night in Kyoto)

Related Titles

original language: 京都之夜

translated: Night in Kyoto

transliterated: Kyōto no yoru

Artist

Yoshida Hiroshi (Japanese, 1876–1950)

Date

1933

Period

Japan: Shōwa period (1926-1989)

Medium

color woodblock print on paper

Catalogue Raisonné

Yoshida Hiroshi zenmokuhanga shū (Abe Shuppan) 180

Dimensions (H x W x D)

image: 14 5/8 in x 9 5/8 in; sheet: 15 3/4 in x 10 5/8 in

Inscriptions & Markings

artist's seal: 博, printed in red ink, lower right Transliteration (Translation): Hiroshi ([seal of the artist Yoshida Hiroshi 吉田博]) Language: Japanese

signature: よし田, printed, lower right Transliteration: Yoshida Language: Japanese

date; title: 昭和八年作 / 京都之夜, printed in brown ink, left margin, center Transliteration (Translation): Shōwa hachi nen saku / Kyōto no yoru (created [in] Shōwa 8 [1933] / Kyoto at Night) Language: Japanese

printer's mark: 自摺, printed in pale black ink, left margin, center Transliteration (Translation): jizuri (self-printed) Language: Japanese Description: The jizuri ("self-printed") notation was generally printed on lifetime impressions that Yoshida Hiroshi considered to be up to his high technical standards.

Collection Area

Asian Art; Graphic Arts

Category

Prints

Japanese Traditional Prints

Object Type

relief print

Culture

Japanese

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. Robert K. McClelland

Accession Number

80.105.5

Copyright

© Yoshida Hiroshi

Terms

Japanese woodblock prints

paper

rain

relief printing

relief prints

restaurants

Showa

townscapes

woodcuts

Related Places

Depicts: Kyoto

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