[1] Fumio Yoshimura studied painting at Tokyo University of the Arts, graduating in 1949.
In New York he taught himself to work wood with various knives, chisels and drills and developed a virtuoso technique.
He used white unpainted basswood, which gave a ghostly pallor to his sculptures of everyday objects such as typewriters,[2] sewing machines, bicycles, or a hot-dog stand.
"Three Bicycles" was the central work in an exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) in New York City in 1986.
[4] In 1981 Yoshimura was artist in residence at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, where he then taught sculpture as an adjunct professor until 1993.