Fujio Yoshida

was a Japanese artist. She was the first female artist among the Yoshida family artists.

Early life and education Fujio Yoshida was the daughter of and , a Western style Japanese artist. Trained from an early age in the Western-style known as yō-ga, she went on to create both naturalistic and abstract watercolors, oils, and woodblock prints. Her paintings of enlarged flower parts are sometimes, and perhaps incorrectly, associated with Georgia O'Keeffe’s work.

Her parents had a family of four girls, but to begin with no son was born to carry on 's work as a Western-style artist. It was expected that a male heir was needed to carry on the family artistic tradition. As a result, adopted his most talented male student, , who then became known as . A few years later a son was born, but was so favoured by his adoptive father that he retained his status as first son. After died, enrolled his adopted sister in some of the best Western-style studios in Tokyo.

Career Catalogue from Exhibition of paintings- American landscape and Japanese landscape in oil and water colours by Mr. Hiroshi Yoshida and Miss Fuji Yoshida. and Hiroshi travelled together to the United States in 1903–1905. They held their first joint exhibition in Providence, Rhode Island. Only 16 years old, was an instant American art world phenomenon, admired for her beauty and exotic kimono, but even more so for her graceful watercolor scenes of Japan. Shows in other East Coast cities followed. She sold almost as many pieces as on that trip and on subsequent trips in 1907 and 1923–1925. Each trip included travel around the world on the way back to Tokyo.

Fujio then entered the initial Japan Fine Arts Exhibition, in 1910 she received an award for Spirit Grove.

In 1949 she began to create abstract flower paintings in bright colours in oils, watercolours, and in 1953 in woodblock prints. She put flower heads indigenous to Japan into fish bowls to enlarge them and painted or engraved the magnified results. It is thought that she was influenced by her son 's abstract art. In 2003, Fukuoka Art Museum held the first major retrospective of her work, showing 130 of her paintings in an exhibition entitled Fujio Yoshida: A Painter of Radiance. Her works were shown for the first time in the UK at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in Yoshida: Three Generations of Japanese Printmaking 19 June to 3 November 2024.

Her works are held in a number of institutions, including the Art Institute of Chicago, Cincinnati Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.