Created in 1928, The Tokugawa Peony Garden at Ochiai is a color woodblock design for the Twelve Scenes of Tokyo. The peony garden at Ochiai belonged to the Tokugawa family and opened a private aristocratic landscape to public view. Yoshida records both the prized seasonal flowers and the social experience of visiting a formal garden in modern Tokyo.
In the design, Yoshida focuses on a cultivated landscape in which paths, water, architecture, and planting are held in deliberate balance. Layered color and selective detail guide the eye between near forms and atmospheric distance. Crisp carved contours are balanced with graduated color, combining descriptive precision with the atmospheric effects associated with Yoshida’s approach to modern color woodblock printing.
Twelve Scenes of Tokyo records the modern capital through rivers, gardens, bridges, streets, and historic sites, preserving atmosphere rather than treating the city as a catalogue of landmarks.
Additional information
| Year Published | 1928 |
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| Size | Ōban |
| Signed | Hiroshi Yoshida |
| Editions | Jizuri |
| Subjects | garden, inside, ochiai, peony, people, tokugawa, tokyo |
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