Portrait of a Boy (Kodomo), Shôwa period, dated 1927

This Shōwa-period impression of Portrait of a Boy (Kodomo), dated 1927, depicts a young child with the quiet attentiveness Yoshida brought to all his figural work. The title Kodomo — simply "child" in Japanese — emphasizes the universality of the subject over any specific identity, yet Yoshida's rendering is particular enough to suggest an observed individual. The print demonstrates his mastery of the woodblock medium's capacity for subtlety: skin tones built from layered pigment, fabric rendered with attention to texture and drape, the child's expression neither posed nor idealized.