Hiroshi Yoshida1876~1950 吉田博

Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950) was a leading Japanese painter and woodblock printmaker active from the Meiji to the Showa era. Born in Fukuoka and trained in Western-style painting under Tamura Shoryu and Koyama Shotaro, he traveled extensively in the United States, Europe, and Asia, developing a realistic yet poetic landscape style. In 1920 he began producing woodblock prints in collaboration with publisher Watanabe Shozaburo of the shin-hanga movement, and in 1925 he established his own print studio in Shimo-Ochiai, Tokyo, supervising master carvers and printers personally. Renowned for series such as the United States Series, European Series, and Twelve Scenes of the Japan Alps, he produced approximately 260 prints and, with Kawase Hasui, is regarded as one of the greatest masters of shin-hanga. He authored “Japanese Wood-Block Printing” (1939) and died in Tokyo in 1950 at age 74.