255 - Hiroshi Yoshida (Japanese, 1876-1950). Oil on canvas landscape painting depicting a rushing stream beneath sharp mountains and an overcast sky, while figures and pack horses cross a wooden bridge. Signed along the lower left. With a Gallery Kabutoya label adhered along the verso. Also, with a printed map of Japan adhered along the verso. Lot Essay: Hiroshi Yoshida was a Japanese painter and woodblock printmaker recognized as one of the greatest artists of the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement, which revitalized traditional ukiyo-e printmaking with Western realism, light, and shadow. Born in Kurume, Fukuoka, to a schoolteacher from a samurai family, he was adopted by his art teacher Yoshida Kasaburo in 1891 and took his surname. He trained under Tamura Shoryu in Kyoto and then Koyama Shotaro in Tokyo, building a foundation in Western-style painting that would define his later print work. Yoshida first made his name as an oil and watercolor painter, exhibiting successfully in Japan and abroad, including in the United States. An avid traveler and mountaineer, he depicted landscapes from across the US, India, China, Korea, North Africa, the Himalayas, and Switzerland, capturing sites like the Taj Mahal, the Sphinx, and the Grand Canyon. His exposure to the West sparked a fascination with woodblock printing; drawing on Impressionist ideas of depicting one scene under varying light and weather, he fused Eastern and Western aesthetics with a distinctive gift for rendering water, reflections, and color. After touring the US and Europe following the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, he returned to Japan in 1925 and founded his own studio, overseeing every stage from design to carving to printing. He was also one of the only shin-hanga artists to sign his work in English, helping his prints find a strong following in the West. His creative process was interrupted when he served as a war correspondent in Manchuria during the Pacific War; he designed his final print in 1946 but kept painting in oils and watercolor until his death in 1950. His sons, Toshi and Hodaka Yoshida, went on to become respected artists in their own right, and his work is held in major collections worldwide, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Tokyo National Museum. Unframed; height: 18 in x width: 24 in. Framed; height: 26 in x width: 32 in x depth: 2 in.