Signed: Toshi Yoshida
Title: Hippopotamus 河馬
Numbered: 11/1200
Dated: 1984
Related links: Moku-hanga.org;
Yoshida traveled in Africa in the 1980s and this is the result of that trip.
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Tōshi Yoshida's "Hippopotamus" captures the serene image of a herd of "water horses" at dawn. Printed on mulberry paper from cherry wood blocks self-cut by Yoshida, with zinc plate effect, "Hippopotamus" is one of his sosaku hanga or "creative prints."