Yoshida Toshi 吉田遠志

吉田遠志 Yoshida Toshi (1911-1995)
He was a Japanese printmaking artist associated with the sosaku-hanga movement and son of shin-hanga artist Hiroshi Yoshida. He went abroad and showed his activity as a printmaker in various parts of the world. From 1971 to 1994, until the last years of his life, Toshi worked almost exclusively on animal prints. Toshi was also a children's book illustrator. He wrote his own short stories and made illustrations in the Animal Picture Book series.