Yoshida Hiroshi’s printer
Yoshida Hiroshi’s printer working on one of Hiroshi’s prints with a baren (a disk-like hand tool) in the Yoshida studio around 1930. Unlike the traditional collaborative production of Japanese ukiyo-e prints where a designer, engraver, and printer worked together under a publisher, Hiroshi firmly believed in an artist’s full control over the print process and therefore hired his own engraver and printer, overseeing every step of the production of his designs.