Hazy-Night Moon – Kumasaka

Yoshitoshi, Taiso, 1839-1892

Hazy-Night Moon – Kumasaka
  • Artist : Yoshitoshi, Taiso, 1839-1892
  • Series : One Hundred Aspects of the Moon
  • Date : 1887
  • Medium : woodblock
  • Item# : 931441
  • Condition : Album backing; minor voids at extreme corner edges
  • Dimensions : 13 x 8 7/8 inches
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  • RESERVED


About The Artist

Yoshitoshi, Taiso, 1839-1892

N.: Tsukioka (originally Yoshioka) Kinzaburo. F.N.: Yonejiro. Go: Gyokuoro, Ikkaisai, Kaisai, Oju, Sokatei, Yoshitoshi. (After 1873 changed his family anme to Taiso.) Ukiyo-e printmaker and leading ukiyo-e print artist of the Meiji Era. Lived in Tokyo. Pupil of Utagawa Kuniyoshi; also studied with Kikuchi Yosai and was adopted by Tsukioka Sessai. In the 1870s worked as a newspaper illustrator. Author of many series of prints depicting bijin, aspects of the moon, historical heroes. In.....

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