Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950) | Yomei Gate (Yomei mon) | Showa period, 20th century

The printing of the Yomei Gate required an extensive ninety-six impressions to achieve its complex colouration. This amount of impressions is the largest executed in Yoshida’s output to print one of his works.¹

For further reading and illustrations on Yoshida’s printing process, see Ogura Tadao et al., The Complete Woodblock Prints of Yoshida Hiroshi, (Tokyo, 1987) p. 175-6.

1. Ogura Tadao et al., The Complete Woodblock Prints of Yoshida Hiroshi, (Tokyo, 1987) p. 151, fig. 224

For a similar impression in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number 50.2966, go to:

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/254930