Takanori Kinoshita's work is considered to be Yōga, a style of painting produced by Japanese artists using traditional Western techniques and materials. Kinoshita was schooled in Western conventions during his time in Paris though he eschewed the more avant-garde influences of the city in that era, such as Cubism, Surrealism, and Dadaism. He was vocal in his criticism of these movements. In 1923 he collaborated with the Russian artist David Burlick to co-author a book titled What Is Futurism? Answer which critiques Dada.He focused instead on absorbing late Impressionism. The works of Henri Matisse, Édouard Manet, Maurice de Vlaminck and Gustave Courbet were those that most inspired him. After his return to Japan, Kinoshita was included in the Nikakai and Shunyokai exhibitions that promoted work in the European style. In his later development he incorporated elements of Surrealism and those of the Proletarian art movement. Works from the 50s and 60s display an airy realist style and a preference for Western subjects such as still lifes and interior portraits. Through the 1960s and 1970s Kinoshita created a series of nudes.
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