Daibutsu sanmon 1940 by Hiroshi Yoshida Material:225g Fine Art Paper and layered colour washes each

and layered colour washes each read cleanly — the fine art print format doing full justice to a composition built on detail

Flat colour areas are rendered evenly

known as Shōtei

making every detail of the composition legible and vivid

surrealist instinct fills it with unease

Daibutsu sanmon 1940 by Hiroshi Yoshida Material:225g Fine Art Paper and layered colour washes eachDaibutsu sanmon depicts the towering sanmon gate of a great Buddhist temple, its layered wooden tiers rising against an open sky with the gravity of centuries. Hiroshi Yoshida structures the composition to emphasize verticality and mass, the gate filling the frame from foundation to eave while atmospheric haze softens the upper edges in the manner of classical Japanese landscape. The shin hanga approach allows him to translate architectural precision