Ancient Ruins of Athens (Acropolis — Night) by Yoshida Hiroshi, 1925 Saskatchewan Scarborough Beach Road

Scarborough Beach Road

resulting in a surge of religious fervor and social transformation

including Portuguese and Dutch trading colonies

Created in 1920

Wisconsin Historical Museum

Ancient Ruins of Athens (Acropolis — Night) by Yoshida Hiroshi, 1925 Saskatchewan Scarborough Beach RoadAncient Ruins of Athens (Acropolis Night) by Yoshida Hiroshi (1925) is a luminous shin hanga woodblock print that reimagines one of the worlds most celebrated ancient sites under a quiet, moonlit sky. A leading figure of Japans early twentiethcentury print renaissance, Yoshida transforms the Acropolis from a daytime monument into a contemplative nocturnemore a poem of stone and light than a documentary view. The monumental massing of the hilltop ruins