This catalogue, the fi rst of its kind in the UK, accompanying the 2024 exhibition atDulwich Picture Gallery, explores the important contribution to Japanese woodblockprinting of the Yoshida family, from patriarch Hiroshi down to the currentgeneration, led by Yoshida Ayomi. The story of the Yoshida family has been woveninto the story of Japanese printmaking across two centuries, with each generationinfusing this traditional art form with their sensitivity and imagination.Trained as a painter and watercolourist, Yoshida Hiroshi (1876–1950) was a pioneer ofthe shin hanga artistic movement, which revived the traditional ukiyo-e prints (‘picturesof the floating world’) focusing on beautiful landscapes and landmarks and combinedthem with Western influences. His incredible corpus of woodblock prints, inspired byhis travels across Japan but also in Europe, Southeast Asia, Africa and North America,greatly contributed to the popularity of Japanese prints in the West. A rare instancein the early twentieth-century Japanese art world, the Yoshida legacy relies also onthe important contribution of its women: first Fujio (1887–1987), Hiroshi’s wife, awatercolourist, painter and printmaker, who was the first Japanese woman artist to gaininternational acclaim. Her style developed over time from naturalism towards greaterstylization and organic abstraction, with her late still lifes strikingly balancing boldnessand sensuality.Toshi (1911–1995) and Hodaka (1926–1995), Hiroshi and Fujio’s sons, represent thesecond generation of this artistic dynasty; Toshi introduced post-war abstraction to theJapanese printmaking process, while Hodaka pushed these modernist instances further,achieving a unique personal style inspired by the sosaku hanga movement of artisticself-expression. His wife Chizuko (1924–2017) co-founded the first group of femaleprintmakers in Japan, the Women’s Print Association. Her works sapiently connectpopular art movements like Abstract Expressionism with Japanese printmaking.The youngest member of the Yoshida family is Ayomi (b. 1958), daughter of Hodakaand Chizuko, whose practice bridges the gap between ukyio-e and contemporary artthanks also to the exploration of organic materials. She has been exhibited at majorinternational institutions and will contribute an original installation to the Dulwichshow.