The Art of Two Easts: the Great Sphinx on the Woodblock Prints of Hiroshi Yoshida
Abstract
Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950), a Japanese painter and woodcutter, was known for his excellent landscape compositions, creating paintings using the European oil technique. He traveled the world and also ex- perimented with traditional woodcut printing. His woodprints depict- ed non-Japanese landscapes and architectural objects, such as ones found in the United States, India, the Swiss Alps, etc. He cultivated the tradition of the ukiyo-e convention, restored in the twentieth century as shin-hanga. The article concerns one of these extraordinary works: the night and day views of the Great Egyptian Sphinx. The woodcut is very precise, and a few of its details allow us to determine the date of the creation of the prototype, as it depicts an important stage in the conservation works carried out on the famous statue. The article also digresses into interesting Japanese-Egyptian themes in the nineteenth century and the works of contemporary Japanese Egyptologists.
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