Ayomi

Ayomi Yoshida, born in 1958, is Hodaka's daughter and the fourth-generation Yoshida printmaker, herself active as an installation artist and woodblock practitioner. This print likely takes Ayomi as its subject or dedicatee, made during her childhood or as a portrait reflection. Hodaka's figurative work tends toward simplification, using flat planes of color and reduced silhouettes rather than detailed likeness. The print probably combines mokuhanga color blocks with photo-etched or photographic transfer, aligning with the technical vocabulary of his mature work from the 1970s onward. Family-related subjects appear intermittently across the Yoshida lineage — Hiroshi depicted his sons in earlier decades; Hodaka, in turn, drew on family life. Read against the broader Yoshida studio tradition, this print marks the continuity of woodblock practice across four generations, with Hodaka's daughter positioned as both subject and eventual continuator of the family craft.