Among the first female Japanese artists to work in the Western-style was Fujio Yoshida, born on October 5, 1887, in Fukuoka Prefecture. Matriarch of the Yoshida family, she was the wife of shin hanga pioneer Yoshida Hiroshi and mother to Yoshidas Toshi and Hodaka. As a highly accomplished painter in her own right, her works were exhibited throughout the United States and Europe during the early 1900s and shortly after the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake. 

From 1923, Yoshida toured America with her husband, selling paintings and visiting famous sites such as the Grand Canyon and Yosemite. An active member of the Shuyokai organization, Yoshida also produced a variety of mokuhanga from the 1920s through the 1950s. From 1946, Yoshida began focusing on contemporary works made using traditional Japanese woodblock techniques. Myoga (No. 96), for example, features a close-up view of delicate, white flowers native to the Japanese archipelago. 

Like her eldest son, Yoshida Toshi, her works border on abstraction and are refreshingly modern. She began carving woodblocks and making her own prints in 1954 at the age of sixty-seven. Yoshida Fujio continued to self-carve, print, and produce hanga until her death in 1987 at the age of one hundred.