{"id":349,"date":"2013-07-10T09:13:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T14:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/?page_id=349"},"modified":"2013-07-11T09:20:33","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T14:20:33","slug":"raicho","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/exhibitions-2\/yoshida-evolution-exhibition\/gallery\/raicho\/","title":{"rendered":"Raicho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/07\/raicho.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-324\" alt=\"Raicho\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/07\/raicho.gif\" width=\"725\" height=\"479\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Raicho<\/strong>, Toshi Yoshida, woodblock print, 1930<\/p>\n<p><em>Raicho<\/em> is the Japanese term for snow grouse.\u00a0 The idea for this work was inspired by a trip to Mt. Hakobayari, where Toshi and his father Hiroshi encountered a mother grouse and her chicks in their campsite.\u00a0 Hiroshi first created a work based on this motif, which focused on both the surrounding scenery and the chicks.\u00a0 He composed this work under the title of <em>Raicho and Komagusa<\/em> in 1926.\u00a0 A few years later, Toshi followed in his father\u2019s footsteps by creating a similar motif.\u00a0 Toshi created one of his earliest woodblock prints capturing a mother grouse and her chicks in 1930, based on sketches he drew during the camping trip in 1926.\u00a0 Toshi chose to focus the work on the protective attitude of the mother bird toward her young.\u00a0 This was one of the first works in which he cut most of the woodblocks by himself, and he first displayed it under the title \u201cPtarmigan\u201d in the Japan Society in 1953.<\/p>\n<p>This work set him apart from this father, and established Toshi\u2019s unique style.\u00a0 While Hiroshi\u2019s work focused on landscapes, Toshi chose to depict wildlife.\u00a0 He was far more accomplished to this end than his father, for while Hiroshi\u2019s depiction of the grouse and her young was competent, Toshi\u2019s depiction captured the life and energy of the birds.\u00a0 As art historian Kendall H. Brown observed, the chicks \u201cthree dimensional volume and vitality stand in marked contrast to the rather flat and static rendering of the mother bird.\u201d\u00a0 This early work helped Toshi Yoshida to establish a solid reputation as the most talented wildlife artist in the woodblock medium.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><em>Lauren Dew and Rebecca Koch<\/em><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" width=\"75%\" \/>\n<h3 align=\"center\">Related Essays<\/h3>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><a title=\"Lauren Dew\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/exhibitions-2\/yoshida-evolution-exhibition\/evolution-exhibit\/raicho\/lauren-dew\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff4500\">Lauren Dew<\/span><\/a> \/ \/ <a title=\"Becca Koch\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/exhibitions-2\/yoshida-evolution-exhibition\/gallery\/raicho\/becca-koch\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff4500\">Rebecca Koch<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n<hr align=\"center\" width=\"75%\" \/>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><a title=\"Gallery\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/exhibitions-2\/yoshida-evolution-exhibition\/gallery\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff4500\">Gallery<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;color: #ff4500\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stolaf.edu\/cwis_policies\/personal_disclaimer.html\"><span style=\"color: #ff4500\"><em>Disclaimer<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raicho, Toshi Yoshida, woodblock print, 1930 Raicho is the Japanese term for snow grouse.\u00a0 The idea for this work was inspired by a trip to Mt. Hakobayari, where Toshi and his father Hiroshi encountered a mother grouse and her chicks in their campsite.\u00a0 Hiroshi first created a work based on this motif, which focused on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/exhibitions-2\/yoshida-evolution-exhibition\/gallery\/raicho\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Raicho&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"parent":296,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-full_width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-349","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/349\/revisions\/628"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}