Hodakayama
Hiroshi Yoshida Catalogue

Hodakayama woodblock print
Artist
Hiroshi Yoshida 吉田博
English title
Hodakayama
Japanese title
穂高山
Series
Twelve Scenes in the Japan Alps 日本アルプス十二題の内
Date
Medium
Colour woodblock print on paper
Paper dimensions (h × w)
27.4 × 40.2 cm
Image dimensions (h × w)
24.8 × 37.5 cm
Edition size
Open
Artist's approval seal (jizuri 自摺)
Yes
Posthumously printed1
Yes
Carver
Maeda Yujiro
Printer
Subjects
Mountain
Water
Remarks
This print based on Yoshida's 1921 print of Mt. Hodaka.
90 impressions as at June 1929
Republished from 1991 to 1995 in a Japan Alps special edition of 380 (identified by 日本アルプス命名一一 〇年記念 in margin). Part of Volume 1 (3 prints per volume; 4 volumes). Printer Komatsu Heihachi died in 2018 and his private cache of Japan Alps reprints was sent to market adding to the 380 atozuri prints.
References
Reference number
HY108
Supplementary images

1 Original restrikes and recarved reproductions share the same identifiers (stamped signatures, toku seals, or atozuri 後摺 seals) and are quite difficult to differentiate.