Kagurazaka Street
Hiroshi Yoshida Catalogue

Kagurazaka Street woodblock print
Artist
Hiroshi Yoshida 吉田博
English title
Kagurazaka Street
Japanese title
神楽坂通 雨後の夜
Series
Twelve Scenes of Tokyo 東京拾二題
Date
Medium
Colour woodblock print on paper
Paper dimensions (h × w)
40.9 × 27.6 cm
Image dimensions (h × w)
37.5 × 24.5 cm
Edition size
Open
Artist's approval seal (jizuri 自摺)
Yes
Posthumously printed1
Yes
Carver
Printer
Subjects
Nighttime
Street scenes
Rain
Tokyo 東京
Remarks
Zinc keyblock
67-impression sheets from John Amoss
The 1980s restrikes have a special seal indicating fundraising for retrospective exhibition. Many copies of the 1980s restrike were uncharacteristically poorly printed - misregistered with overly wet printing.
References
Reference number
HY205
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.