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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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Ōya Tarō Mitsukune Watching Skeletons

Ōya Tarō Mitsukune Watching Skeletons (1865)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
Minamoto Yorimitsu Ason Watching a Spider

Minamoto Yorimitsu Ason Watching a Spider (1865)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
Sunrise

Sunrise (1878)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
A Bugaku Performance at the Imperial Palace during the Doll Festival

A Bugaku Performance at the Imperial Palace during the Doll Festival (1878)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
Geisha Ofusa of Amanoya Threatened with Arrest for Indecent Exposure on a Hot Evening

Geisha Ofusa of Amanoya Threatened with Arrest for Indecent Exposure on a Hot Evening (1875)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
A Memorial Portrait of Onoe Kikugorō IV

A Memorial Portrait of Onoe Kikugorō IV (1860)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
Reading by the moon (Dokusho no tsuki)

Reading by the moon (Dokusho no tsuki) (1885-1892)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
Lady Chiyo and the broken water bucket

Lady Chiyo and the broken water bucket (1885-1892)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
Watanabe Genji Tsuna on a Horse in the Rain

Watanabe Genji Tsuna on a Horse in the Rain (1865)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
Enlightenment of the Courtesan Jigokudayū

Enlightenment of the Courtesan Jigokudayū (1890)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
Sano Jirōzaemon Murdering a Courtesan

Sano Jirōzaemon Murdering a Courtesan (1886)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
The Battle at Kagoshima

The Battle at Kagoshima (1877)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
Kanjirō Repels His Would-be Assassins

Kanjirō Repels His Would-be Assassins (1875)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
Amateur Prostitutes Fighting over a Client

Amateur Prostitutes Fighting over a Client (1875)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
The Suigetsurō Restaurant in Unemechō

The Suigetsurō Restaurant in Unemechō (1871)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
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