”Tora” 虎 (tiger) - Toshi Yoshida (1911-1995) - Japan

Original woodblock print, Printed by Numabe Shinkichi of the Yoshida Studio - Paper - Toshi Yoshida (1911-1995) - ”Tora” 虎(tiger) - Japan - Heisei period (1989-2019)

Pulinter by Numabe Shinkichi

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 son of shin-hanga artist Hiroshi Yoshida.

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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 1926, Tōshi chose animals as his primary subjects to distinguish himself from his father, who was a landscape printmaker. However, 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.
In 1940 he married Kiso Yoshida