Abstract:

In 1930, the Japanese artist Yoshida Hiroshi (1876–1950) spent several months travelling in India and Southeast Asia. After his return to Japan he produced a series of 32 woodblock prints inspired by his travels. A leading figure in the ‘shin-hanga’ (new print) movement, which contributed to the renewal of Japanese printmaking after the end of the Meiji era (1912), Yoshida first trained in the Western oil painting tradition. Using traditional Japanese printing techniques but remaining closely...

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