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Bird on Stump in Water

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Artist
Ohara Koson (1877 – 1945, Japanese)
Date
n.d.
Medium
woodblock on paper
Catalogue Number
KhO.04.03
Description
A bird, blue and green back and head, red breast, long yellow beak, sits on top of a black stump poking out of water. There is a smaller stump beside it, they are both pointing towards the left, there are black and green reeds sticking out of the water and one fish in the water. The water is greyis…
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Artist
Ohara Koson (1877 – 1945, Japanese)
Title
Bird on Stump in Water
Date
n.d.
Medium
woodblock on paper
Description
A bird, blue and green back and head, red breast, long yellow beak, sits on top of a black stump poking out of water. There is a smaller stump beside it, they are both pointing towards the left, there are black and green reeds sticking out of the water and one fish in the water. The water is greyish blue and fades out towards middle of picture.
Subject
landscape
lake
bird
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
KhO.04.03
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Boating Under Cherry Blossoms

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Artist
Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)
Date
1896
Medium
woodblock on paper
Catalogue Number
ChY.04.12 a-c
Description
This triptych features 6 woman on a boat. The boat emerges from the third panel behind a group of rocks. Coming from this group of rocks in the trc is a tree with white blossoms which hangs over the boat, and into the second panel. The boat stretches through the second panel and ends with a sharp…
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Artist
Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)
Title
Boating Under Cherry Blossoms
Date
1896
Medium
woodblock on paper
Dimensions
37.0 x 73.0 cm
Description
This triptych features 6 woman on a boat. The boat emerges from the third panel behind a group of rocks. Coming from this group of rocks in the trc is a tree with white blossoms which hangs over the boat, and into the second panel. The boat stretches through the second panel and ends with a sharp tip halfway into the first panel. The women are all in the second and third panels. 5 women are sitting under a covered top, and one woman is standing outside of this covered top with her hand on the ceiling, and her head turned to the left. The sky is uncoloured, and there are 2 birds flying in the first panel.
Subject
Activity
Boating
Figures
Women
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
ChY.04.12 a-c
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Artist
Henry Eric Bergman (1893 – 1958, Canadian )
Date
1931
Medium
woodblock on rice paper
Catalogue Number
BeH.04.04
Description
A black and white engraving of Castle Mountain. The foreground is a dense forest with a slight clearing of brush at center of image.The forest ends at slopes up an embankment. The embankment has water pathways, leading in a downward pattern. The mountain rises from the embankment to a cloudy sky. T…
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Artist
Henry Eric Bergman (1893 – 1958, Canadian )
Title
Castle Mountain
Date
1931
Medium
woodblock on rice paper
Dimensions
24.8 cm x 33 cm cm
Description
A black and white engraving of Castle Mountain. The foreground is a dense forest with a slight clearing of brush at center of image.The forest ends at slopes up an embankment. The embankment has water pathways, leading in a downward pattern. The mountain rises from the embankment to a cloudy sky. There is a red pencilled number “758” in the bottom lhc.
Subject
landscape
mountain
H. E. Bergman
Credit
Gift of Karen Paul, Calgary, 2010
Catalogue Number
BeH.04.04
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Artist
Tom W. McLean (1881 – 1951, Canadian)
Date
c. 1930
Medium
ink on paper
Catalogue Number
MlT.04.04
Description
Woodblock print of Cathedral Mountain. The sky is bright yellow and is reflected in a lake at the bottom of the print. Cathedral Mountain is a hazy blue and in the distance. Dark blue, silhouetted trees at the middle of the print surround a lake that is in the immediate foreground. A brown log …
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Artist
Tom W. McLean (1881 – 1951, Canadian)
Title
Cathedral Mountain
Date
c. 1930
Medium
ink on paper
Dimensions
20.4 x 15.2 cm
Description
Woodblock print of Cathedral Mountain. The sky is bright yellow and is reflected in a lake at the bottom of the print. Cathedral Mountain is a hazy blue and in the distance. Dark blue, silhouetted trees at the middle of the print surround a lake that is in the immediate foreground. A brown log lies horizontally at the edge of the lake in front of the trees. Several brown rocks are poking up out of the lake.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
Cathedral Mountain
lake
Credit
Gift of Canadian Art Gallery, Canmore, 2004
Catalogue Number
MlT.04.04
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Changing of Robes, Chiyoda Castle (Album of Women)

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Artist
Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)
Date
1896
Medium
woodblock on paper
Catalogue Number
ChY.04.01 a-c
Description
(a)standing female figure, dressed in red kimono, holding a black box, in front of what appears to be a vanity table with mirror, artist's marks in the lower left hand corner (b) 36.9 x 25.3/35.5x23.7 kneeling female figure dressed in black kimono is helping another standing female figure adjust he…
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Artist
Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)
Title
Changing of Robes, Chiyoda Castle (Album of Women)
Date
1896
Medium
woodblock on paper
Dimensions
36 x 25 cm
Description
(a)standing female figure, dressed in red kimono, holding a black box, in front of what appears to be a vanity table with mirror, artist's marks in the lower left hand corner (b) 36.9 x 25.3/35.5x23.7 kneeling female figure dressed in black kimono is helping another standing female figure adjust her kimono, which is patterned with fans (c) 36.8x25.2/35.523.6 kneeling female figure in dark blue flowing kimono looking over her right shoulder, folding what appears to be a bed quilt, artist's marks in the lower right hand corner, and calligraphy in the upper right hand corner (a)(b) and (c) are a triptych, and all have a light background of scattered flowers
Subject
figure
female
group
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
ChY.04.01 a-c
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Artist
Shibata Zeshin (1807 – 1891, Japanese)
Date
1887
Medium
woodblock on paper
Catalogue Number
ShE.04.01
Description
Three black ravens flying to the left at top of picture, the top of the background is reddish and tapers to white at bottom of picture. The birds are not completely in picture - the first raven show only the end of the tail, the second has the top of the head and back out of the picture and the thi…
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Artist
Shibata Zeshin (1807 – 1891, Japanese)
Title
Crows in Flight
Date
1887
Medium
woodblock on paper
Dimensions
36.3 x 30.3 cm
Description
Three black ravens flying to the left at top of picture, the top of the background is reddish and tapers to white at bottom of picture. The birds are not completely in picture - the first raven show only the end of the tail, the second has the top of the head and back out of the picture and the third has the tip of the top wing and tip of the tail feathers out of the picture.
Subject
animal
bird
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
ShE.04.01
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Artist
Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)
Date
1878
Medium
coloured woodcut on paper
Catalogue Number
ChY.04.03 a-c
Description
(a) actor costumed with flowing mane, peonies on his hat and in his hand, wearing blue robes (b) 37.1 x 25.0/35.7 x 24.5 actor with long flowing white mane, also with peonies on his hat and in hand, wearing red robes (c)37.1 x 25.0/36.0 x 24.5 actor with flowing mane, purple robes, with large peoni…
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Artist
Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)
Title
Dancing Lions
Date
1878
Medium
coloured woodcut on paper
Dimensions
37.1 x 25.0 cm
Description
(a) actor costumed with flowing mane, peonies on his hat and in his hand, wearing blue robes (b) 37.1 x 25.0/35.7 x 24.5 actor with long flowing white mane, also with peonies on his hat and in hand, wearing red robes (c)37.1 x 25.0/36.0 x 24.5 actor with flowing mane, purple robes, with large peonies in the background. All actors hats have bells around the brim.
Subject
figure, male
activity
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
ChY.04.03 a-c
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Evening Mt. Fuji During the Upward Wind

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Artist
Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)
Date
1895
Medium
woodblock on paper
Catalogue Number
ChY.04.08 a-c
Description
This triptych features four women spread across three panels with Mt. Fuji softly in the background. A stretch of bushes separated the women from the background and is mostly grey. The lone Mt. Fuji is the only background with paper tone behind it. In the first panel Mt. Fuji starts and two wome…
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Artist
Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)
Title
Evening Mt. Fuji During the Upward Wind
Date
1895
Medium
woodblock on paper
Dimensions
37 x 72 cm
Description
This triptych features four women spread across three panels with Mt. Fuji softly in the background. A stretch of bushes separated the women from the background and is mostly grey. The lone Mt. Fuji is the only background with paper tone behind it. In the first panel Mt. Fuji starts and two women stand with their bodies facing eachother. The smaller woman is pointing at Mt. Fuji. In the second panel a woman stands in the rc, her body facing right and her head turned back to the left. She has her back to the mountain which is mostly featured in the second panel. In the third panel a woman sits on a bench facing left with her hand by her chest. A lamp is to the left of her bench. The ground the woman are on is mostly paper tone with a light wash.
Subject
figures
woman
landscape
mountain
Mt. Fuji
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
ChY.04.08 a-c
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Fire at the Castle, Life from the Inner Most Court of Chiyoda Castle

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Artist
Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)
Date
1896
Medium
woodblock on paper
Catalogue Number
ChY.04.04 a-c
Description
(a) lady dressed in a black kimono carries a paper lantern and long sword, there is a tall column of smoke behind her, above the roof tops, and shadowy figures (b) 37.4 x 25.7/36.0 x 24.1 two ladies, one mounted on a white horse, the other holding the horse and a long sword in her other hand, both …
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Artist
Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)
Title
Fire at the Castle, Life from the Inner Most Court of Chiyoda Castle
Date
1896
Medium
woodblock on paper
Dimensions
37 x 25 cm
Description
(a) lady dressed in a black kimono carries a paper lantern and long sword, there is a tall column of smoke behind her, above the roof tops, and shadowy figures (b) 37.4 x 25.7/36.0 x 24.1 two ladies, one mounted on a white horse, the other holding the horse and a long sword in her other hand, both are dressed in black kimonos and wearing tall conical black hats (c) 37.7 x 25.7/35.9 x 24.5 three ladies dressed in black kimonos with tall black hats are all holding long swords, and one has a paper lantern. Horses were brought to Japan from North China and Mongolia.
Subject
figure
group
female
animal
horse
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
ChY.04.04 a-c
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Flower Viewing on the Boat

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Artist
Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)
Date
1879
Medium
woodblock on paper
Catalogue Number
ChY.04.14 a-c
Description
This triptych features 16 women viewing flowers and fish from 2 boats and a dock. The first panel has 5 women all looking down towards the water. They are standing on a dock. In the tlc a tree is in blossom these blossoms stretch all the way into the third panel. A long boat intersects the 1st…
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Artist
Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)
Title
Flower Viewing on the Boat
Date
1879
Medium
woodblock on paper
Dimensions
37 x 75 cm
Description
This triptych features 16 women viewing flowers and fish from 2 boats and a dock. The first panel has 5 women all looking down towards the water. They are standing on a dock. In the tlc a tree is in blossom these blossoms stretch all the way into the third panel. A long boat intersects the 1st, second and third panels. in this long decorative boat are 7 woman. One woman in the second panel is standing to row. The rest are seated and mostly looking into the water. A third boat floats under a bridge in the third panel. A woman stands at the head of the boat rowing. In the brc of the third panel are many flowers from which the second boat emerges. A group of Red Carp is visible in bottom of the centre panel.
Subject
gathering
women
activity
boating
flower viewing
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
ChY.04.14 a-c
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Fujiyama - Early Morning

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Artist
Hiroshi Yoshida (1876 – 1950, Japanese)
Date
1928
Medium
woodblock on paper
Catalogue Number
YoH.04.06
Description
Colour: mauve grey, orange. Looking down from a great height, on cloud cover over distant mountains. A few peaks can be seen. In the lower corner is a rock cliff with eleven climbers on it. The early morning light is bursting onto the horizon at the top of the picture.
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Artist
Hiroshi Yoshida (1876 – 1950, Japanese)
Title
Fujiyama - Early Morning
Date
1928
Medium
woodblock on paper
Dimensions
24.8 x 37.5 cm
Description
Colour: mauve grey, orange. Looking down from a great height, on cloud cover over distant mountains. A few peaks can be seen. In the lower corner is a rock cliff with eleven climbers on it. The early morning light is bursting onto the horizon at the top of the picture.
Subject
skyscape
mountain
figure
group
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1971
Catalogue Number
YoH.04.06
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Fujiyama from Fumatsu

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Artist
Hiroshi Yoshida (1876 – 1950, Japanese)
Date
n.d.
Medium
woodblock on paper
Catalogue Number
YoH.04.12
Description
Colour: charcoal grey, purple and pink browns. Central image is the courtyard of a group of buildings. There are two bushes in the lower left. Behind the buildings taking the upper third is the snowy peak of Fujiyama which rises to the right side.
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Artist
Hiroshi Yoshida (1876 – 1950, Japanese)
Title
Fujiyama from Fumatsu
Date
n.d.
Medium
woodblock on paper
Dimensions
24.7 x 37.4 cm
Description
Colour: charcoal grey, purple and pink browns. Central image is the courtyard of a group of buildings. There are two bushes in the lower left. Behind the buildings taking the upper third is the snowy peak of Fujiyama which rises to the right side.
Subject
landscape
mountain
architecture
rural
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1971
Catalogue Number
YoH.04.12
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Fujiyama from Musashimo

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Artist
Hiroshi Yoshida (1876 – 1950, Japanese)
Date
n.d.
Medium
woodblock on paper
Catalogue Number
YoH.04.09
Description
Colour: brown and blue. Brown fields fill the bottom half of the print. Trees and hills beyond form the horizon. The peak of Fujiyama is seen a little left of center. Sky fills the upper half of the print.
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Artist
Hiroshi Yoshida (1876 – 1950, Japanese)
Title
Fujiyama from Musashimo
Date
n.d.
Medium
woodblock on paper
Dimensions
24.4 x 37.1 cm
Description
Colour: brown and blue. Brown fields fill the bottom half of the print. Trees and hills beyond form the horizon. The peak of Fujiyama is seen a little left of center. Sky fills the upper half of the print.
Subject
landscape
mountain
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1971
Catalogue Number
YoH.04.09
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Fujiyama from Yoshida

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Artist
Hiroshi Yoshida (1876 – 1950, Japanese)
Date
n.d.
Medium
woodblock on paper
Catalogue Number
YoH.04.07
Description
Colour: blue, dark green, grey. A single snow peaked mountain filling the upper half and resting on the dark plains below.
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Artist
Hiroshi Yoshida (1876 – 1950, Japanese)
Title
Fujiyama from Yoshida
Date
n.d.
Medium
woodblock on paper
Dimensions
25.1 x 36.9 cm
Description
Colour: blue, dark green, grey. A single snow peaked mountain filling the upper half and resting on the dark plains below.
Subject
landscape
mountain
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1971
Catalogue Number
YoH.04.07
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Artist
Hosei
Date
1897 – 1897
Medium
woodblock on paper
Catalogue Number
HoS.04.01 a-c
Description
This panel of 3 pieces features four women in a garden. The first panel depicts a young woman standing at the right side of the panel with her head turned to the right. To her left is a large space of garden. The second panel contains 2 women. The one on the bl is crouching down with her head tur…
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Artist
Hosei
Title
Garden of Autumn Grass
Date
1897 – 1897
Medium
woodblock on paper
Dimensions
37.5 x 72.5 cm
Description
This panel of 3 pieces features four women in a garden. The first panel depicts a young woman standing at the right side of the panel with her head turned to the right. To her left is a large space of garden. The second panel contains 2 women. The one on the bl is crouching down with her head turned to the right. She holds a small flower. The woman in the tr is sitting on a bench facing left, with her back to the viewer. In the third panel the bench continues, with a woman sitting on the left end of it. She is holding a fan, looking downwards and facing the viewer.
Subject
group
women
activity
garden
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
HoS.04.01 a-c
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Artist
Henry Eric Bergman (1893 – 1958, Canadian )
Date
1931
Medium
woodblock on rice paper
Catalogue Number
BeH.04.03
Description
A black and white woodblock print in which a mountain dominates. On the lower right there are rocks and boulders to the left the lower part of the mountain face. The mountain forms a peak on top with sky behind. On viewer’s right a glacial waterfall flows down the rockwall. Pencil script lhc: Glac…
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Artist
Henry Eric Bergman (1893 – 1958, Canadian )
Title
Glacier Water
Date
1931
Medium
woodblock on rice paper
Dimensions
13.7cm x 11.9 cm cm
Description
A black and white woodblock print in which a mountain dominates. On the lower right there are rocks and boulders to the left the lower part of the mountain face. The mountain forms a peak on top with sky behind. On viewer’s right a glacial waterfall flows down the rockwall. Pencil script lhc: Glacial Water 7/75, pencil script rhc: H.E. Bergman
Subject
landscape
mountain
H.E. Bergman
Credit
Gift of Karen Paul, Calgary, 2010
Catalogue Number
BeH.04.03
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Glittering Sea, from the series: The Island Sea

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Artist
Hiroshi Yoshida (1876 – 1950, Japanese)
Date
1916
Medium
woodblock on paper
Catalogue Number
YoH.04.14
Description
Colour: blue, green. The horizon line is at five-sixths of the way up the picture. Two boats with sails sit in the lower right area. A group of boats float to the left at the horizon line. A bright reflection of the sun comes down on the water at center. The sky is beige.
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Artist
Hiroshi Yoshida (1876 – 1950, Japanese)
Title
Glittering Sea, from the series: The Island Sea
Date
1916
Medium
woodblock on paper
Dimensions
24.6 x 36.8 cm
Description
Colour: blue, green. The horizon line is at five-sixths of the way up the picture. Two boats with sails sit in the lower right area. A group of boats float to the left at the horizon line. A bright reflection of the sun comes down on the water at center. The sky is beige.
Subject
seascape
transportation
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1971
Catalogue Number
YoH.04.14
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Artist
James Agrell Smith (1913 – 1988, Canadian)
Date
1974
Medium
ink on paper
Catalogue Number
SmJ.04.09
Description
A black ink print on beige paper of a young child’s head and arm in 3/4 profile. The child has her eyes closed and has her arm up near her face. She is framed in an oval.
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Artist
James Agrell Smith (1913 – 1988, Canadian)
Title
Grand-daughter
Date
1974
Medium
ink on paper
Dimensions
16.0 x 12.5 cm
Description
A black ink print on beige paper of a young child’s head and arm in 3/4 profile. The child has her eyes closed and has her arm up near her face. She is framed in an oval.
Credit
Gift of Dorothy Cranstone, Banff, 1988
Catalogue Number
SmJ.04.09
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Artist
Hiroshi Yoshida (1876 – 1950, Japanese)
Date
1927
Medium
woodblock on paper
Catalogue Number
YoH.04.16
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Artist
Hiroshi Yoshida (1876 – 1950, Japanese)
Title
Hokuryo
Date
1927
Medium
woodblock on paper
Dimensions
27.0 x 40.5 cm
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
YoH.04.16
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Hotakayama- Hodakayama

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Artist
Hiroshi Yoshida (1876 – 1950, Japanese)
Date
1916
Medium
woodblock on paper
Catalogue Number
YoH.04.10
Description
Colour: purple, yellow, green. The lower half is water surrounded by green trees on the left and yellow bushes across the center. The upper half is purple mountains with dark forest on the left.
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Artist
Hiroshi Yoshida (1876 – 1950, Japanese)
Title
Hotakayama- Hodakayama
Date
1916
Medium
woodblock on paper
Dimensions
24.6 x 37.0 cm
Description
Colour: purple, yellow, green. The lower half is water surrounded by green trees on the left and yellow bushes across the center. The upper half is purple mountains with dark forest on the left.
Subject
landscape
mountain
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1971
Catalogue Number
YoH.04.10
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