25/06/2026
YOSHIDA Hodaka 吉田穂高 (1926–1995) was born in Tokyo as the son of the renowned Shin-Hanga artist Hiroshi Yoshida and the equally celebrated painter and printmaker Fujio Yoshida. He initially studied biology, but after World War II he turned to painting and woodblock printmaking. In 1953, he married the artist Chizuko Inoue. Together they traveled extensively throughout the United States and Europe.
Over the course of his career, Hodaka produced more than 600 prints and exhibited widely in Japan, Mexico, the United States, and Europe. He also taught printmaking at institutions including the University of Hawaii and the University of Oregon, helping to promote Japanese printmaking techniques and artistic ideas internationally. He died in 1995 and was posthumously awarded Japan’s Order of the Rising Sun later that same year.
Unlike his brother Toshi Yoshida, Hodaka did not follow his father's landscape tradition. His early works were influenced by Expressionism and abstraction, but his artistic language gradually evolved in a more symbolic and imaginative direction. During the 1960s and 1970s, his style developed into a distinctive blend of surreal, mythological, and Pop Art-inspired imagery.
Hodaka did not limit himself to woodblock printing. Throughout his career, he continuously experimented with innovative techniques, combining woodblock printing with lithography, etching, silkscreen, and photo-transfer processes.
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