Uji Joetsu
Yoshitoshi, Taiso, 1839-1892
Uji Joetsu- Artist : Yoshitoshi, Taiso, 1839-1892
- Series : Sagas of Beauty and Bravery
- Date : 1866
- Medium : woodblock
- Item# : 281191
- Condition : Album backing; trimming; worming
- Dimensions : 9 x 6 1/2 inches
- SOLD
About The Artist
Yoshitoshi, Taiso, 1839-1892N.: 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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