# Toshi Yoshida artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-19T11:34:44.192Z
Quality: high confidence, strong sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Japanese
- Movements: sōsaku-hanga
- Common media: woodblock print, painting

## About Toshi Yoshida

Toshi Yoshida (1911–1995) was a Japanese artist, painter, and printmaker associated with modern Japanese woodblock printing. The eldest son of shin-hanga artist Hiroshi Yoshida, he learned traditional woodblock techniques in his father's studio and later studied at the Taiheiyo-Gakai, or Pacific Painting Association, from 1932 to 1935. Yoshida is commonly linked with the sōsaku-hanga movement, a modern printmaking context that emphasized the artist's individual role in designing and producing prints. His work appears in museum and reference collections, and his name is represented in international authority records under several forms, including Tōshi Yoshida, Yoshida Tōshi, and 吉田遠志. Collectors and appraisers most often encounter him through Japanese woodblock prints and related works on paper, while paintings and edition details may also require careful identification.

## Common works and media

Auction and appraisal contexts commonly include Yoshida's Japanese woodblock prints and other works on paper. Depending on the object, records may also identify paintings, editions, signed or inscribed impressions, and works with specific provenance or catalogue references. Edition information, print condition, paper quality, margins, signature, inscriptions, and any evidence of restoration are especially important when comparing related impressions. A careful assessment should distinguish an original print or painting from later, incomplete, poorly documented, or uncertainly attributed material.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraising a Toshi Yoshida work requires comparison with objects of the same medium, scale, date, and period. Condition, restoration, surface quality, signature or inscription, edition information, attribution confidence, provenance, exhibition history, and catalogue references can all affect an individual result. Public auction records provide useful comparables, but they do not represent every private sale and may vary in whether buyer premiums or fees are included. Appraisily’s tracked records should therefore be read as market evidence for comparable works, not as a guaranteed value for a specific print or painting.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG7525
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/94884869/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7862732
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.3445.html
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/24365975X
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%8Dshi_Yoshida
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/toshi-yoshida/