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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi - Enlightenment of the Courtesan Jigokudayū
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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi is widely recognized as the last great master of the ukiyo-e genre of woodblock printing and painting. He is also regarded as one of the form's greatest innovators. His career spanned two eras – the last years of Edo period Japan, and the first years of modern Japan following the Meiji Restoration.

Like many Japanese, Yoshitoshi was interested in new things from the rest of the world, but over time he became increasingly concerned with the loss of many aspects of traditional Japanese culture, among them traditional woodblock printing.

By the end of his career, Yoshitoshi was in an almost single-handed struggle against time and technology. As he worked on in the old manner, Japan was adopting Western mass reproduction methods like photography and lithography. Nonetheless, in a Japan that was turning away from its own past, he almost singlehandedly managed to push the traditional Japanese woodblock print to a new level, before it effectively died with him.

His reputation has only continued to grow, both in the West, and among younger Japanese, and he is now almost universally recognized as the greatest Japanese artist of his era.

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A Banquet at the Koshida Palace

A Banquet at the Koshida Palace (1886)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
Hakoōmaru Kneeling by a Short Sword

Hakoōmaru Kneeling by a Short Sword (1878)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
Moon on the Sumida River

Moon on the Sumida River (1885-1892)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
Kusunoki Tamonmaru Masayuki Surprising a Fox Ghost

Kusunoki Tamonmaru Masayuki Surprising a Fox Ghost (1865)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
Looking Weighed Down; The Manner of a Waitress at Fukagawa in the Tenpō Era

Looking Weighed Down; The Manner of a Waitress at Fukagawa in the Tenpō Era (1888)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
The Temple Page Shiragikumaru Wrestling a Green Demon

The Temple Page Shiragikumaru Wrestling a Green Demon (1866)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
The moon and the abandoned old woman (Obasute no tsuki)

The moon and the abandoned old woman (Obasute no tsuki) (1885-1892)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
Mōri Motonari Attacking Sue Harutaka at Itsukushima

Mōri Motonari Attacking Sue Harutaka at Itsukushima (1880)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
Chofu village moon (Chofu sato no tsuki)

Chofu village moon (Chofu sato no tsuki) (1885-1892)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
Portraits of the generations of the Tokugawa clan

Portraits of the generations of the Tokugawa clan (1878)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
Shiranui Kneeling Beside a Crucified Man

Shiranui Kneeling Beside a Crucified Man (1867)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
The Tokugawa Princess Yōhime

The Tokugawa Princess Yōhime (1887)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
Sumiyoshi no meigetsu

Sumiyoshi no meigetsu

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
Sunrise

Sunrise (1878)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
Nunobiki no Taki Akugenta Yoshihira no Naniwa Jirō o Utsu

Nunobiki no Taki Akugenta Yoshihira no Naniwa Jirō o Utsu (1880)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
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