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Ukiyoe’s Living Legacy: The Yoshida Family Prints

Frank Museum of Art
August 20 - December 5, 2025
Yoshida Family Artists
Public Reception
October 2, 2025, 4p - 6p
Curatorial remarks begin at 4:30p
From the Meiji period (1868-1912) to the present day, the Yoshida family has carried forward a printmaking tradition rooted in the aesthetics of ukiyo-e, a genre of Japanese art that flourished during the Edo period (1603-1867) and that depicted transient pleasures and everyday life of the urban population. Beginning with work by the patriarch Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950), this exhibition samples the Yoshida family’s artistic re-imagining of ukiyo-e through modern and contemporary periods. The works on view from the Flaten Art Museum demonstrate technical mastery and an ongoing negotiation between past and present, tradition and innovation, place and personhood.

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From the Meiji period (1868-1912) to the present day, the Yoshida family has carried forward a printmaking tradition rooted in the aesthetics of ukiyo-e, a genre of Japanese art that flourished during the Edo period (1603-1867) and that depicted transient pleasures and everyday life of the urban population. Beginning with work by the patriarch Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950), this exhibition samples the Yoshida family’s artistic re-imagining of ukiyo-e through modern and contemporary periods. The works on view from the Flaten Art Museum demonstrate technical mastery and an ongoing negotiation between past and present, tradition and innovation, place and personhood.

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