Yoshiko Yamamoto
Yoshiko Yamamoto’s love of Japanese ukiyo-e informs her blockprint and letterpress art that she creates at The Arts and Crafts Press in Tacoma, WA. Letterpress printing is a relief process, the oldest form of printing, and Yoshiko is self-taught in the craft. Her style is inspired by the European Arts and Crafts movement (1880-1910) founded by William Morris which favored craft production over industrial manufacture and emphasized strong line-driven designs sourced from nature. Committed to creating things of beauty, art for her is a way of life.
![Yoshiko Yamamoto](https://www.craftinamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/TACOMA1.jpg)
![Yoshiko Yamamoto Winter Cardinals](https://www.craftinamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/TACOMA4.jpg)
![Yoshiko Yamamoto Winter Cardinals](https://www.craftinamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/TACOMA6.jpg)
![Yoshiko Yamamoto](https://www.craftinamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/YAMAMOTO3-e1440549105982.jpg)
![Yoshiko Yamamoto](https://www.craftinamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/YAMAMOTO31.jpg)
![Holly Branch](https://www.craftinamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Holly-Branch-600dpi.jpg)
![Winter Cardinals](https://www.craftinamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/YAMAMOTO2.jpg)
![Snowman](https://www.craftinamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/YYsnowman.jpg)
Mark Markley photographs