{"id":392,"date":"2013-07-10T09:39:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T14:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/?page_id=392"},"modified":"2013-07-11T09:18:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T14:18:47","slug":"cherry-tree-in-kawagoe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/exhibitions-2\/yoshida-evolution-exhibition\/gallery\/cherry-tree-in-kawagoe\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherry Tree in Kawagoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/07\/cherry_tree.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-315\" alt=\"Cherry Tree\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/07\/cherry_tree.gif\" width=\"537\" height=\"821\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cherry Tree in Kawagoe, <\/strong>Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950), woodblock print, 1935<\/p>\n<p>Hiroshi Yoshida was trained as an artist from the time he was a young man, but it wasn\u2019t until he was in his forties that he became interested in the art of woodblock printing.\u00a0 While traditionally woodblock printing observed strict divisions of labor between the artist, carver and printer, Hiroshi Yoshida was intimately involved in all of these steps.\u00a0 This level of involvement was continued by the other artists in this exhibit.<\/p>\n<p>A great traveler, Yoshida\u2019s prints are as often of scenes outside of Japan as in his own country.\u00a0 This print, <em>Cherry Tree in Kawagoe<\/em>, is from a series of eight prints that depict various scenes from the <em>sakura<\/em>\u00a0 or cherry blossom season, a highlight of Japan\u2019s spring.\u00a0 Traditionally dressed figures stand in a temple complex beneath the branches of a blooming but very old Sakura tree.\u00a0 This print was originally created in 1935 but this<strong><\/strong>particular copy of the print was done posthumously from the original blocks by\u00a0 Hiroshi Yoshida\u2019s son, Toshi.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><em>Alexander Esse and Stephanie Cargile<\/em><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" width=\"75%\" \/>\n<h3 align=\"center\">Related Essays<\/h3>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><a title=\"Stephanie Cargile\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/exhibitions-2\/yoshida-evolution-exhibition\/gallery\/cherry-tree-in-kawagoe\/stephanie-cargile\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff4500\">Stephanie Cargile<\/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>Cherry Tree in Kawagoe, Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950), woodblock print, 1935 Hiroshi Yoshida was trained as an artist from the time he was a young man, but it wasn\u2019t until he was in his forties that he became interested in the art of woodblock printing.\u00a0 While traditionally woodblock printing observed strict divisions of labor between the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/exhibitions-2\/yoshida-evolution-exhibition\/gallery\/cherry-tree-in-kawagoe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cherry Tree in Kawagoe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"parent":296,"menu_order":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-full_width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-392","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/392","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=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":626,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/392\/revisions\/626"}],"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=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}