Printmaker Tōshi Yoshida had supported his brother Hodaka when he started to design abstract prints in the 1940s and had hidden the fact from his father Hiroshi, who made no secret of his disapproval. Encouraged by his brother’s success and inspired by the rise of non-figurative art in the West, Tōshi began to produce a series of abstract prints in 1952. In contrast to Hodaka’s abstracts, Tōshi’s have a certain simplicity and calmness about them. Tōshi said of his move to abstraction, that altho