THE ARTIST – HIROSHI YOSHIDA

Hiroshi Yoshida was a Japanese artist who was born in 1876 and died in 1950. Deemed a leader in the resurrection of Japanese printmaking after the Meiji period, you would see a blend of artists in this renewal known as Shin Hanga, which are new Japan or modern prints and Sosaku Hanga, which means creative prints or movement. Hiroshi Yoshida was born to a school principal teaching at an elementary institution. It was easy to see that Hiroshi Yoshida was extremely talented at a very young age. By the age of 18, he was allowed to study in a Tokyo private school. At first, Hiroshi Yoshida worked as a painter. This artist won a number of prizes for his exhibitions but not until 1920 was he working to create woodblock prints. Around that time, he was introduced to Watanabe Shozaburo who owned a print store in Tokyo. Along with several unknown but willful artists, Hiroshi Yoshida began painting woodblock prints with Watanabe publishing the first ever made. Read More...