東京名勝高輪 蒸気車鉄道之全図|Illustration of Steam Locomotive Tracks at Takanawa, from the series Famous Places in Tokyo (Tōkyō meishō Takanawa-jōki kikansha no zen zu)
Medium
Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Image (a): 14 x 9 1/2 in. (35.6 x 24.1 cm) Image (b): 14 1/4 x 9 5/8 in. (36.2 x 24.4 cm) Image (c): 14 1/8 x 9 3/4 in. (35.9 x 24.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Culture & Period
Japan · Meiji period (1868–1912)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005
Accession Number
2007.49.260a–c
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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...