Kogo, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"
Tsukioka Kôgyo
1898/1903
Medium
Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban diptych (right: 1943.833.31b)
Dimensions
37.8 × 25.7 cm (14 15/16 × 10 1/8 in.)
Classification
woodblock print
Department
Arts of Asia
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
196042
About the Artist
Tsukioka Kôgyo · 1869–1927
Tsukioka Kōgyo (1869–1927), born Hanyū Bennosuke in Tokyo's bustling Nihonbashi district as the second son of an innkeeper family, navigated a path from humble origins to mastery in Japanese printmaking. After his father's early death, he was raised by his mother's Sakamaki family and apprenticed in pottery painting under his uncle, a ceramics exporter in Yokohama. He briefly attended the Tokyo Sc...