From Komagatake - #6 from the Southern Japan Alps Series

Hiroshi Yoshida

"From Komagatake" was printed from 6 blocks using 23 impressions. It is signed in sumi ink, "Yoshida", with the red seal "Hiroshi", and with the artist's jizuri (self-printed) seal at upper le/ft margin. It is followed by the date, "Showa sannen saku" (made in Showa 3 [1928]), and the series and print titles, "Nihon Minami Alps Shu: Komagatake sancho yori." There were allegedly 90 impressions as of June, 1929.

The "Southern Japan Alps Series" consisted of six images, all done in 1928, from which "From Komagatake" is the first, depicting the view above the clouds from the summit of Komagatake.

This impression was purchased by collector Roger Epperson from Yoshida scholar and collector Cecil G. Tilton and it is not pencil signed or titled, indicating that it was meant for the Japanese collectors, not the Western market.

By 1928 Yoshida's work had entered the Western market in America and Europe with great success and he had opened his own printing and publishing workshop in 1925. He had worked with Watanabe and others earlier and most of his work was lost in the earthquake of 1923 and he decided it was best to control his own destiny.