Carp and Tortoises 1940 by Hiroshi Yoshida Classic Doudine's precise linework and rich

Doudine's precise linework and rich colour relationships are reproduced with clarity and fidelity

magnificently strange

overlapping clusters

The mood is low-key

inseparable from the Art Nouveau movement it helped define

Carp and Tortoises 1940 by Hiroshi Yoshida Classic Doudine's precise linework and richCarp and Tortoises places two emblems of Japanese longevity in a shared underwater world, their forms observed with the patient precision Hiroshi Yoshida brought to his natural history subjects. The composition uses the diffusion of light through water to unify the scene carp scales catching the surface glow while the tortoises move through deeper shadow below. Yoshida's shin hanga technique allows him to hold both the graphic clarity of the woodblock