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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 country couple enjoys the moonlight with their infant son

A country couple enjoys the moonlight with their infant son (1885-1892)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
A Banquet at the Koshida Palace

A Banquet at the Koshida Palace (1886)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
Hazy-night moon (Oboroyo no tsuki)

Hazy-night moon (Oboroyo no tsuki) (1885-1892)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
Katō Kazue no kami Kiyomasa Kneeling by a Banner

Katō Kazue no kami Kiyomasa Kneeling by a Banner (1878)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
Iga no Tsubone with Tengu, the Spirit of Fujiwara no Nakanari

Iga no Tsubone with Tengu, the Spirit of Fujiwara no Nakanari (1865)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
Heroes of the Novel Suikoden

Heroes of the Novel Suikoden (1868)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
Momijigari

Momijigari

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
Tokugawa Ietsuga Playing at Archery

Tokugawa Ietsuga Playing at Archery (1875)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
Sakai Kyūzō Hurling a Spear

Sakai Kyūzō Hurling a Spear (1868)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
Daimotsu kaijō no tsuki

Daimotsu kaijō no tsuki

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
Semimaru

Semimaru

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
Taira no Kiyomori

Taira no Kiyomori

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
A Lady-in-Waiting of the Bunsei Period (1818-1830)

A Lady-in-Waiting of the Bunsei Period (1818-1830) (1888)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
A Kamezaki Brewer’s Celebration of His Good Fortune

A Kamezaki Brewer’s Celebration of His Good Fortune (1875)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
Geisha Blackening Teeth at 1;00 p.m.

Geisha Blackening Teeth at 1;00 p.m. (1880)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)
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