Daimotsu kaijo no tsuki - Benkei
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
1886-01
Medium
color woodcut
Dimensions
395; 222; 267; 328
About this artwork
collector's mark: Lugt 2228
About the Artist
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi · 1839–1892
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi was born on April 30, 1839, in the Shimbashi district of Edo, the city that would become Tokyo. At the age of eleven he was apprenticed to Utagawa Kuniyoshi, one of the great masters of the Japanese woodblock print, who gave the boy the artist name 'Yoshitoshi' as a mark of lineage within the Utagawa School. From Kuniyoshi, Yoshitoshi absorbed the full tradition of ukiyo-e — th...