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In 1900 Yoshida convinced a group of young, accomplished artist friends – Nakagawa Hachiro, Kawai Shinzo (see lot 3017), Maruyama Banka, Kanokogi Takeshiro and Mitsutani Kunishiro to join him in traveling to Boston to sell their watercolors and experience first-hand Western culture and art. Subsequently, his extensive travels took Yoshida to many locations throughout United States and eventually the world. One of his favorite locations in the United States was the Berkshire mountains in western Massachusetts. While there, with his wife Fujio, he produced two oil paintings in Tyringham of a farmhouse at dusk. One painting depicts the house from a distance while the other shows the house up close and with the front door open. The one painted at a distance is now part of the collection of the Fukuoka Art Museum and was part of the exhibition A Japanese Legacy: Four Generations of Yoshida Family Artists held at the Minneapolis Art Institute in 2002. The painting of the Tyringham farmhouse with the open door is being offered here.