Description
The blocks for this design were carved by the artist, and the design was originally published in 1977. According to Eugene Skibbe in Yoshida Toshi: Nature, Art and Peace, the first printing of this design was sold out, and a second special edition of that version, using a white cloud middle layer, instead of blue, was issued in 1984.
The Toshi Yoshida Raised Seal Edition prints were produced during Toshi’s final illness, when he was too weak to sign his prints, and can be distinguished from the posthumous prints. They bear a printed signature with embossed seal next to the signature. During this period, however, he kept supervising all of the printing at his studio.
