Toshi Yoshida Traditionals

Tōshi Yoshida (吉田 遠志, Yoshida Tōshi, July 25, 1911 - July 1, 1995) was a Japanese printmaking artist associated with the sōsaku-hanga movement, and was the son of shin-hanga artist Hiroshi Yoshida.

Yoshida’s artistic career was a long struggle between fidelity to his father’s legacy and freedom from it. Hiroshi Yoshida, a shin-hanga landscape artist, dictated Tōshi’s early artistic development.

In the 1930s, Tōshi started making landscape paintings and prints similar to his father’s works. Father and son traveled together and even painted side by side. From 1930 to 1931, Hiroshi and Tōshi traveled to India, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Burma.

Toshi Yoshida inherited his father’s artistic talent. Initially, his landscape prints may appear similar to those of his father, Hiroshi Yoshida. However, upon closer examination of the artist’s work, you’ll soon recognize that Toshi’s style was more than a mere continuation of his father’s.