The Artist
Hodaka Yoshida
Printmaker Hodaka Yoshida was born in Tokyo, Japan, on September 3, 1926, into the noted Yoshida family of artists. Father Hiroshi and mother Fujio were pioneers of embracing Western style in pre-war Japan, building a major collector clientele in America and England in the 1920s and ’30s. Before the Second World War, their children were encouraged to carry on this tradition; Toshi and Hodaka studied oil painting and woodcut at Daichii High School, considered the best in Japan at the time.
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