Yoshida

Explores the rich history of Japanese printmaking passed down through the Yoshida family.This book, accompanying the 2024 exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery, explores the Yoshida family’s important contribution to Japanese woodblock printing, from patriarch Hiroshi down to the current generation, led by Yoshida Ayomi. The story of the Yoshida family has been woven into the history of Japanese printmaking across two centuries, with each generation infusing this traditional art form with their sensitivity and imagination.Trained as a painter and watercolorist, Yoshida Hiroshi (1876–1950) was a pioneer of the shin hanga artistic movement, which revived the traditional ukiyo-e prints (“pictures of the floating world”). His incredible corpus of woodblock prints contributed to the popularity of Japanese prints in the West. Fujio (1887–1987), Hiroshi’s wife, a watercolorist, painter, and printmaker, was the first Japanese woman artist to gain international acclaim. Toshi (1911–1995) and Ho