In his paintings, you can see the floating world and the sorrow of things.

When it comes to Yoshida Bo, a printmaker who has a far-reaching influence on Miyazaki Hayao, we have to start with Ukiyo-e painting.

The word "floating world" is very sad, but it has a flashy and shiny surface. Ukiyo-e painting, also known as brocade painting, is just another name for traditional Japanese woodcut prints. However, it was not until the emergence of "Ukiyo-e Landscape Painting" represented by Yasuke Mui (1760- 1849) in the Edo period that Japan's spirit of advocating sadness, mystery and elegance was truly expressed through the pictures.

After Meiji Restoration, Japanese painters began to learn from the West. They were surprised and excited to find that those western masters who created "Expressionism" and "Impressionism" were obviously influenced by Ukiyo-e painting. On the other hand, what shocked Japanese painters is that in Japan, Ukiyo-e painting is a workshop work, which requires one painter to draw the original painting, one painter to be rigid and one painter to print; In Europe, the above work is done by the printmakers themselves!

Later, in Japan, this kind of prints made by artists were no longer called "ukiyo-e", but called Shin hanga and Sosakuhanga.

Yoshida Hiroshi is a representative figure of the new painting movement. Today, he is regarded as the greatest printmaker in Japan after the Meiji era. His paintings combine the impressionist painting style that had gradually declined in Europe at that time, as well as the mourning of things rooted in the tradition of ukiyo-e painting.

The so-called mourning for things is translated from today's new slang-the beauty cried.

Yoshida Hiroshi was born in 1876, and his adoptive father is the principal of Shuguan Junior High School in Fukuoka. This family is the representative of the leisure class. He showed his artistic talent very early. /kloc-When he was 0/8 years old, he went to a private academy of fine arts in Tokyo to study painting.

Yoshida quickly won a reputation in the art world and held his own oil painting exhibition. 1920, 44-year-old Yoshida Bo began to create woodcuts. Yoshida Hiroshi found a publisher with a printing studio in Tokyo and cooperated with Masazaburo Watanabe. The first seven woodcuts were all published by Watanabe Masazo. 1923 A fire broke out in the printing workshop of Masazaburo Watanabe in the Great Kanto Earthquake in Japan. All the woodcuts and prints that Yoshida Bo stored there were damaged.

That's why Yoshida went to America, nothing more, just for fun. 1925 after returning to China, he began to hire his own craftsmen to make prints ambitiously, and sometimes he simply made them himself. He has always felt that his craft is more skilled than other craftsmen. Therefore, he will sign the word "self-folding" on his own completely created, rigid and printed printed printed matter to show his quality.

French impressionist painters like to paint the same scenery at different times of the day, so as to capture the change of light and shadow and the influence of light on color impression, which is also the essence of impressionist painting.

Japan's new painting movement absorbed this idea and integrated it into the ancient traditional woodcut prints, creating a highly modern artistic style. Yoshida likes to create different versions of the same theme, usually one day and one night, or in different weather conditions and at different times.

This helps him to create the most special and beautiful part of his life. He has created thematic prints of light and shadow changes for the Acropolis, the Egyptian Sphinx, sailing boats at sea, the corners of Lany and Himeji, the Gancheng Zhangjiafeng in Nepal, the Taj Mahal and the Afghan caravan.

There is no doubt that Yoshida Bo is a Japanese who loves to travel. Besides the whole country, he has been to the United States, Europe, Africa, India, China and South Korea. He is also a mountaineer and founded a "Japanese Alpine Artists Association". Yoshida Hiroshi's passion for printmaking stems largely from his love of travel and mountaineering, because this is almost a record of his travel and the beautiful scenery he saw when climbing in Japan and the European Alps.

Although Yoshida's art is rooted in Japanese tradition, he is a real cosmopolitan artist, and he combines the aesthetics of the East and the West into a brand-new charming form. His prints restore the subjective impression of the scenery in his eyes, and at the same time, they also have the meaning of tranquility, elegance and tranquility in the Japanese silent aesthetics.

Yoshida Bo once talked about his artistic ideas:

"Real art is worldwide, and the final result left on paper is the result of an external influence, which collides and rubs with the inner vitality of every life and finally stays in people's hearts."

At the end of his life, Yoshida made a grand travel plan for himself, named World Scenery. Unfortunately, he died before 1950' s dream came true.

Yoshida Bo created 259 woodcuts in his life. He supervised the production and printing of all books except the first seven published by Masazaburo Watanabe. These prints are rich in Japanese style, realistic themes and charming colors, which let the world see the origin of the scenery in Miyazaki Hayao's works-elegant and quiet, splendid and floating world.