Kiso River

Object Details

• Artist

  Yoshida Hiroshi 吉田博 (1876-1950)

• Label

  The Kiso River flows from the Japan Alps through the region near Nagoya. Its lower regions are famous for their rapids. Here Yoshida Hiroshi shows a wide and calm stretch of the river with a castle visible atop the hill and fishing boats in the foreground. Deep blue and gray tones in the landscape and the warm glow of the sky suggest a time of day near sunset.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds and partial gift of H. Ed Robison

• Type

  Print

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• Date

  1920s

• Name

  Yoshida, Hiroshi

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Boats and boating, Art, Showa era (1926 - 1989), Japanese Art, Rivers

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Prints