Chizuko Yoshida (1924-2017) was one of the first female abstract artists in Japan. She broke through with her oil paintings, but from 1953 she focused on printmaking.

Yoshida produced woodblock prints and experimented extensively with mixed techniques. A key theme in her work was the visualisation of sound. In 1956, Yoshida and eight other female print artists founded the Women’s Print Association (Joryū Hanga Kyōkai), the first organisation in Japan for women in this field. The association staged annual exhibitions in Japan and abroad, enabling increasing numbers of female artists to develop a career in printing.