Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Japanese(April 30, 1839 – 1892)

Works

Artist Spotlight

Yoshitoshi: The Master Who Reimagined Everything

There is a moment in the British Museum's permanent collection when visitors stop moving. They have rounded a corner into the Japanese galleries and found themselves face to face with a sheet of handmade paper carrying an image of such psychological intensity and chromatic daring that the twenty first century seems to dissolve around them. The print is by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, and the effect it produces is not nostalgia but something far more alive: the recognition that here was an artist operating at the absolute outer limits of his medium, pushing a centuries old tradition into territory… Continue reading

Woodblock Print Japanese Late 19th Century Meiji Period Classical Literature 19th Century Traditional Japanese Art Tsukioka Yoshitoshi Narrative Figurative Kabuki

Fujiwara Yasumasa Plays the Flute by Moonlight (Fujiwara Yasumasa gekka roteki) | Meiji period, late 19th century

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892) Snow: The actor Onoe Baiko V in the role of Iwakura Sogen (Yuki: Iwakura no Sogen, Onoe Baiko), Meiji period, late 19th century

Moon on the sea at Daimotsu – Benkei (Daimotsu kaijo no tsuki) | Meiji period, late 19th century

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892) Shunkan Watches Enviously from Kikai Island as Yasuyori is Pardoned and Returns to the Capital (Shunkan sozu Kikaigashima ni oite tamatama Yasuyori no shamen senbo kito no zu), Meiji period, late 19th century

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892) The complete set of The Journey to the West, A Popular Version (Tsuzoku saiyuki), Edo period, 19th century

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