Thursday, April 17, 2014

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi Art

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (30 April 1839 – 9 June 1892) was a Japanese artist. He 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.

holding back the night
with its increasing brilliance
the summer moon
– Yoshitoshi's death poem

“Oshu adachigahara hitotsuya no zu”
(The Lonely House on Adachi Moor) - 1885
From the set Thirty-two Aspects of Women
published by Tsunashima Kamekichi, 1888.

Byokansaku Yōyu (Yang Hsiung)
Stabbing a pregnant woman (1868)

Inada Kyûzô Shinsuke (1866)
From "Twenty-Eight Famous Murders with Verse "

Bodhidharma (1887)

Narihira and Nijo no Tsubone at the Fuji River

Kaidomaru and Yamauba (1873)

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