Hiroshi Yoshida (Japanese, 1876-1950). Japanese shin-hanga woodblock print titled "Country Festival" depicting a Kawano country festival in the Kansai region, 1933. Pencil signed along the lower right; titled along the lower left.

One of the leading figures in the Japanese Shin-hanga movement, Hiroshi Yoshida was born in Fukuoka in 1876. In 1893, he moved to Kyoto and studied yoga and nihonga styles of painting and watercolors. It came only in middle age he started collaborating with the shin-hanga publisher Watanabe Shozaburo. Despite his late debut as a shin-hanga printmaker, he successfully put himself on the map as the greatest artist of the shin-hanga style and is especially noted for his excellent landscape prints. His prints are highly recognized in both Japan and overseas.
Height: 15 1/2 in x width: 10 1/2 in. There are no losses, creases, or tears. There is light toning along the edge of the top margin. There are a few minute spots of discoloration, down the right and left margins, possibly ink residue. There are no signs of restoration under UV light. Not framed.