Appraisal: 1978 Joichi Hoshi Autumn Light Woodblock
Clip: Season 30 Episode 5 | 2m 17sVideo has Closed Captions
Appraisal: 1978 Joichi Hoshi Autumn Light Woodblock
Watch Sachiko Hori's appraisal of a 1978 Joichi Hoshi "Autumn Light" woodblock print in Georgia State Railroad Museum, Hour 2.
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Appraisal: 1978 Joichi Hoshi Autumn Light Woodblock
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Watch Sachiko Hori's appraisal of a 1978 Joichi Hoshi "Autumn Light" woodblock print in Georgia State Railroad Museum, Hour 2.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipGUEST: I got it when I lived in Alaska and we were looking to renovate our house.
So I would go to the Salvation Army store.
GUEST: ...looking for art to put on the walls, and I found this one, but it didn't match.
We were doing all silver frames... APPRAISER: Right.
GUEST: ...and this had a gold, gold so it wouldn't match.
But I really liked it, so I bought it anyway.
APPRAISER: So did you know what you were getting?
The art?
GUEST: No, not a clue.
I figured out the name of the artist after a while.
GUEST: And I found another print that he had for sale on the internet... APPRAISER: Right.
GUEST: ...and it was about $150.
APPRAISER: Ooh, right.
GUEST: Back in 2016.
APPRAISER: So the artist's name is, you...?
GUEST: I think it was Oshi.
APPRAISER: Hoshi.
GUEST: Hoshi.
APPRAISER: H-O-S-H-I, Hoshi and that means "star" in Japanese.
Joichi Hoshi is from Japan, northern part of Japan, um, Niigata, the north.
And he studied in Musashino Art University, which is very prestigious.
And he was actually in Taiwan, he was teaching.
APPRAISER: But so he started doing woodblock prints later in his life.
So this is a woodblock print, but it's different from traditional woodblock prints.
Where other specialists did the carving and the printing, the artists usually do the drawing only.
But these modern Japanese woodblocks, they do everything.
GUEST: Wow.
APPRAISER: They carve their prints, they design, they carve, and they print.
On the lower right, he dates this 1978.
And above this, the red seal is his top mark and the title is in Japanese.
On lower left, it's Autumn Light.
GUEST: Oh, did he print mostly trees?
APPRAISER: Yes, his popular things are mostly trees and he did other colors.
So did you pay $100 or...?
GUEST: I paid $5.99.
APPRAISER: Right.
Five dollars?
Wow.
GUEST: Yeah.
APPRAISER: I think it's really getting popular.
Uh, prints are good market, Japanese prints, and I think I've seen this type of nice tree making in retail, $1,500.
GUEST (gasps, laughing): Wow!
That's great.
APPRAISER: (laughs) GUEST: $1,500!
Woo-hoo!
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Clip: S30 Ep5 | 3m 27s | Appraisal: 1628 Mercator Hondius Map of China (3m 27s)
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Clip: S30 Ep5 | 1m 33s | Appraisal: 1921 Kurt Arno Gütter Violin (1m 33s)
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Clip: S30 Ep5 | 2m 38s | Appraisal: 1935 S.S. Normandie Art Deco Chrome Vases (2m 38s)
Appraisal: 1949 Babe Didrikson Zaharias-signed Ball
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Clip: S30 Ep5 | 2m 34s | Appraisal: 1949 Babe Didrikson Zaharias-signed Ball (2m 34s)
Appraisal: 1966 William de Kooning Sketch
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Clip: S30 Ep5 | 2m 25s | Appraisal: 1966 William de Kooning Sketch (2m 25s)
Appraisal: 1978 Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers-signed poster
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Clip: S30 Ep5 | 2m 13s | Appraisal: 1978 Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers-signed poster (2m 13s)
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Clip: S30 Ep5 | 2m 45s | Appraisal: 19th C. Jim Williams-owned Federal Hunt Board (2m 45s)
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Clip: S30 Ep5 | 1m 14s | Appraisal: Alvan Clark & Sons Refractor Telescope, ca. 1875 (1m 14s)
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Clip: S30 Ep5 | 3m 1s | Appraisal: Autograph Book, ca. 1900 (3m 1s)
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Clip: S30 Ep5 | 1m 31s | Appraisal: Clitso Dedman Wooden Carvings, ca. 1950 (1m 31s)
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Clip: S30 Ep5 | 2m 20s | Appraisal: Dale Nichols Group, ca. 1950 (2m 20s)
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Clip: S30 Ep5 | 2m 53s | Appraisal: Davis Pennington Brown Stoneware Face Jug, ca. 1917 (2m 53s)
Appraisal: Delta & Eastern Flight Attendant Uniforms
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Clip: S30 Ep5 | 2m 21s | Appraisal: Delta & Eastern Flight Attendant Uniforms (2m 21s)
Appraisal: Egyptian 18th Dynasty Scarab Ring, ca.1450 BCE
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Clip: S30 Ep5 | 3m 35s | Appraisal: Egyptian 18th Dynasty Scarab Ring, ca.1450 BCE (3m 35s)
Appraisal: Jessie Arms Botke Oil Painting, ca. 1940
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Clip: S30 Ep5 | 2m 14s | Appraisal: Jessie Arms Botke Oil Painting, ca. 1940 (2m 14s)
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Clip: S30 Ep5 | 3m 5s | Appraisal: Sapphire & Diamond Ring, ca. 1940 (3m 5s)
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Clip: S30 Ep5 | 1m 4s | Appraisal: Three Illustrations, ca. 1945 (1m 4s)
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Clip: S30 Ep5 | 2m 2s | Appraisal: Tiffany Studios "Bookmark" Pattern Clock, ca.1915 (2m 2s)
Preview: Georgia State Railroad Museum, Hour 2
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Preview: S30 Ep5 | 30s | Preview: Georgia State Railroad Museum, Hour 2 (30s)
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