About the print

Original lifetime print by Toshi Yoshida (1911-1995) titled “White Plum in Farmyard,” 1951. Excellent original condition, strong colors; no discernible issues.

About the artist…

Born in 1911 as the first son of artist father Hiroshi Yoshida, it was almost predictable by Japanese tradition that Toshi would himself grow up to also become an artist. Raised in a household of art, Toshi produced his first woodblock print design in 1925 at the age of 14. This first woodblock was created only five years later than his father’s first woodblock print published in 1920.

Surrounded by art and under the constant influence of his father's lifework, Toshi quite naturally took to both sketching and painting at a very young age. At the same time, quite likely during these early years, Toshi would have also observed the ins-and-outs of father Hiroshi's self-run business, knowledge that would serve him well in later life. In 1929 Toshi traveled with his father to India and throughout Southeast Asia on what was both a family vacation and a carefully planned print-sketching trip.

Compared to his printmaker father Hiroshi Yoshida (1881-1950) who produced a lifetime total of some 259 woodblock print images, Toshi ultimately became even more prolific in his life's output. At the age of 28 in 1939, Toshi had produced only his first 10 woodblock prints. But by the time of his death in 1995 he had surpassed his father with a body of woodblock prints totaling 396 images that ranged from traditional Japanese landscapes to animals of Africa to complete abstracts.

In addition to overseeing the Yoshida Family Studio's posthumous production of his father's prints in the years following the death of Hiroshi in 1950, Toshi became well-known and admired as an artist in his own right. Biography sourced from Ukiyoe-Gallery website.

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