Hiroshi Yoshida, September 19, 1876 – April 5, 1950, was a Japanese painter and printmaker. Born Hiroshi Ueda in Kurume, he was adopted in 1891 by his art teacher, Yoshida Kasaburō. He studied painting in Kyoto with Tamura Sōritsu and then Western-style painting at Koyama Shōtarō’s Fudōsha school in Tokyo.
Yoshida joined the Meiji Fine Arts Society and helped establish the Taiheiyō Gakai (Pacific Art Society) in 1902. He traveled in the United States and Europe from 1899, published his first woodblock print in 1920, and later founded the Japan Mountain Painting Association. His sons Tōshi Yoshida and Hodaka Yoshida also became artists.
Yoshida’s work is held by the British Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Toledo Museum of Art, and the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum.
Kōyō Okada, Hiroshi Yoshida in 1949
The Grand Canyon, from The United States Series, 1925
Color woodblock print on paper, 10.1 × 14.6 in
Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, Hachioji
Kawaguchi Lake, from Ten Views of Mt. Fuji, 1926
Color woodblock print, 14.4 × 20.1 in
Toledo Museum of Art
Mount Hodaka, from Twelve Scenes in the Japan Alps, 1926
Color woodblock print on paper, 9.8 × 14.6 in
Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, Hachioji
Kameido Bridge, from Twelve Scenes of Tokyo, 1927
Color woodblock print on paper, 14.8 × 9.7 in
Yokohama Museum of Art
Winter in Taguchi, 1927
Woodcut on paper, 9.8 × 14.7 in
Fukuoka Art Museum
The Kengamine Summit, from Ten Views of Mount Fuji, 1928
Color woodblock print, 9.8 × 14.8 in
Honolulu Museum of Art
Rapids at the Upper Reaches of Tone River, 1928
Color woodblock print on paper, 9.8 × 14.6 in
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Morning Mist in Taj Mahal No. 5, from India and Southeast Asia, 1932
Color woodblock print, 14.3 × 20.1 in
Fukuoka Art Museum
A Gate to the Stupa of Sanchi, from India and Southeast Asia, 1932
Color woodblock print on paper, 14.8 × 9.8 in
Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, Hachioji
Evening in Nara, from Kansai District, 1933
Woodcut on paper, 14.8 × 9.6 in
Fukuoka Art Museum
Hirosaki Castle, from Eight Scenes of Cherry Blossoms, 1935
Color woodblock print, 14.8 × 9.7 in
Honolulu Museum of Art
Cryptomeria Avenue, 1937
Color woodblock print, 14.8 × 9.7 in
Art Institute of Chicago
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