Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
An Ukiyo-e artist representing the late Edo period to the Meiji era. He gained popularity for his bold ideas and compositions, as well as his high painting skills.
1839-1892 (A.D.)
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi was an ukiyo-e artist from the late Edo period to the early Meiji era. His real name was Yoshioka Yonejirō, and his pseudonyms were Ikkaisai, Taiso and among others. He is said to have been adopted by his relative Tsukioka Sessai, thus taking the family name "Tsukioka". In 1850, at age 12, he became a disciple of Utagawa Kuniyoshi and named himself "Yoshitoshi". He began painting in earnest around 1860, and became a popular painter in 1866 when he collaborated with fellow student Ochiai Yoshiiku on a series of atrocity paintings called "Eimei nijyūhasshū-ku". He produced a diverse series of nishiki-e (multi-colored woodblock prints), mainly inspired by history and Japanese/Chinese folklore, which included historical paintings, warrior paintings, portraits of beautiful women, and horror paintings. He was well received for his creativity which he inherited from Kuniyoshi, his powerful and bold compositions, and his high painting skills that incorporated the realism of Western-style paintings, and was listed as the most popular Ukiyo-e artist in the book "Tokyō Ryūkō Saiken-ki" (Guide to Popular Trends of Tokyo) published in 1885. He was also active in the field of news reporting, producing nishiki-e related to events at the end of the Edo period and the Meiji Restoration, and the Satsuma Rebellion that took place in 1877, as well as "nishiki-e newspapers", which introduced events that appeared in newspapers with nishiki-e, and illustrations for "ko-shinbun", or newspapers for ordinary people. In 1882, he joined the newspaper, "Eiri Jiyū Shinbun-sha", and later the "Jiyū Tō" in 1884, and the "Yamato Shinbun" in 1886. At the same time, he also illustrated various books, including translated Western novels and reprints of Edo (present Tokyo) caricatures. His representative works include "Tsuki-no-Hyakushi", a series of 100 nishiki-e depicting Japanese and Chinese stories and folklore featuring the moon.The artist Mizuno Toshikata became his disciple.
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