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Lot Essay
Another impression of this print, which is thought to date from about 1911, is in the Victoria and Albert Museum.1 Yoshio Mar(k)ino (he inserted the 'r' to give his name a more Western appearance and prevent it from being mispronounced) specialised mainly in delicately coloured watercolours and woodblock prints, the latter often imitating the effects of lithography, mainly of London scenes. He attended the American Missionary College in Japan and studied art at California State University from 1894 to 1897, moving to London in the same year. He continued his studies at Goldsmith's and the Central School of Art and remained in England until he was forcibly repatriated in 1942, leaving behind one of his most precious possessions, a woman prisoner's dress presented to him by the suffragette campaigner Christabel Pankhurst. The distinguished English Japanologist Carmen Blacker met him in Japan in 1953 and later wrote a memoir of his eventful life.2
1 Malcolm Warner, The Image of London (London, 1987), cat. no. 245
2 Carmen Blacker, 'Yoshio Markino, 1869-1956', in Ian Nish (ed.), Japan and Britain: Biographical Portraits (London, 1994), pp. 174-189; Yoshio Markino, A Japanese Artist in London (London, 1910)
1 Malcolm Warner, The Image of London (London, 1987), cat. no. 245
2 Carmen Blacker, 'Yoshio Markino, 1869-1956', in Ian Nish (ed.), Japan and Britain: Biographical Portraits (London, 1994), pp. 174-189; Yoshio Markino, A Japanese Artist in London (London, 1910)