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Hiroshi Yoshida 吉田博 (1876-1950), Japanese
Evening in a Hot Spring, 1939
Ink and paper engraving
1996.14.01
While European post-impressionists such as Maurin were inspired by traditional Japanese wood block prints, Japanese artists were inspired by European styles as well, the art movement was known as yōga. Yoshida was trained as a painter in Tokyo in the late 19th century and traveled widely during his life. In 1899 he and Nakagawa Hachriō, also in the exhibition, traveled to the US and Europe. In the 1920s he began to produce woodblock prints, mostly of landscapes. This piece demonstrates his two interests, Western style composition and traditional Japanese printing. Yoshida was a master of shin-hanga, an early 20th century movement that revitalized the ukiyo-e wood block print tradition in Japan.