Yoshida Hiroshi (吉田博) (artist 09/19/1876 – 04/05/1950)
Harusame (Spring Rain - 春雨)/Yozakura in the rain from the series Eight Scenes of Cherry Blossoms (Sakura hachidai - 櫻八題)
1935
10.625 in x 15.75 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signed: Yoshida (in block),
Seal: Hiroshi (博)
Hiroshi Yoshida (romanized, in pencil in lower right margin)
Title: Yozakura in Rain in pencil bottom left margin
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Art Institute Chicago
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Toledo Museum of Art
Stanley Museum of Art, University of Iowa Yozakura (夜桜) means cherry blossoms at night. This would explain the subdued color scheme of this particular image. As it turns out, viewing cherry blossoms at night is a favorite pastime of the Japanese.
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This is probably a late copy. It lacks the jizuri (自摺) seal in the left margin showing that it was self-printed. That seal can be seen clearly in the example in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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There are other copies of this print in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and at the Merced Library, University of California.
Illustrated in The Complete Woodblock Prints of Yoshida Hiroshi (吉田博全木版画集), Abe Publishing, 1987, p. 140, #193.
modern prints (shin hanga - 新版画) (genre)
landscape prints (fūkeiga 風景画) (genre)