Kumoi Cherry Trees

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Kumoi Cherry Trees

Artist Hiroshi Yoshida (Japanese, 1876-1950)

Date1926

Dimensionspaper: 23 x 29 1/4 in. (58.4 x 74.3 cm)
image: 21 1/4 x 27 7/8 in. (54 x 70.8 cm)

Mediumcolor woodblock print

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineGift of H. D. Bennett

Object number

1939.381

Not on View

Label TextBased on his watercolor painting of 1904, this woodblock print by Hiroshi Yoshida shows a dreamlike, misty moonlit scene of two young women viewing the famed spring cherry blossoms at Mount Yoshino, east of Osaka. Kumoi Cherry Trees is printed in the largest format Yoshida ever used for his woodblocks. Printing an image of this size is very difficult and requires a team of printers. It is especially tricky to get the correct registration (the alignment of the different woodblocks for each color). For this image the blossoms of the cherry tree had to be printed in three sections, requiring three different impressions to get them to align perfectly with the branches.Published ReferencesToledo Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art Masterworks, Toledo, 2009, p. 44, repr. (col.).

Putney, Carolyn M, Kendall H. Brown, Koyama Shuko, Paul Binnie. Fresh Impressions: Early Modern Japanese Prints, Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, 2013 repr. (col.) pp.296.

Exhibition HistoryToledo, The Toledo Museum of Art, A Special Exhibition of Modern Japanese Prints (March 2-March 30, 1930), repr. pl. 298.

Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, Fresh Impressions: Early Modern Japanese Prints, (October 4, 2013-January 1, 2014).

Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, Looks Good on Paper: Masterworks and Favorites, Oct. 10, 2014-Jan. 11, 2015.